Leader Tom Stephenson
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From: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:28 AM
Subject: Sunday at Jamaica Bay
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird
From: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:28 AM
Subject: Sunday at Jamaica Bay
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird
Hi Peter,
It was a very beautiful day out on the pond yesterday, with a good number of shorebirds and a nice breeze. The water level is very low, so we really only needed sneakers to get around. The only party-pooper was the Peregrine, who flushed the birds completely out of the northern end when we were just getting to the best area...and once again later moving them back to the northern end..!
But that being said, we still had a good number of species seen well. Highlights included many White-rumped Sandpipers, most very close, Hudsonian (and distant then gone Marbled) Godwits, Pectoral Sandpiper, Bonaparte's Gull and lots of time to study all of the regulars including one leucistic semipalmated sp.
Here's the list. I'll send some photos to the group later and will cc you for as many as you'd like to use.
And thanks very much to Bobbi for handling all of the reservations, cancellations, rebookings and more rebookings, all while navigating the swamps of our southern frontier.
Best regards,
Tom
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Little Blue Heron |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| Mallard |
| Northern Pintail |
| Osprey |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| American Oystercatcher |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Hudsonian Godwit |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Red Knot |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Least Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Laughing Gull |
| Bonaparte's Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
| Caspian Tern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Rock Dove |
| Chimney Swift |
| Northern Flicker |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Fish Crow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| European Starling |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Common Grackle |
| Boat-tailed Grackle |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| House Sparrow |
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--Carl Sagan
