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| Snow White Moth |
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| Delaware Skipper |
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| Eastern eye Click beetle |
Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird
A "field book" of day (or occasional weekend)sightings of previous field trips led by skilled leaders to various habitats and locales within and beyond Brooklyn and NYC boundaries. Founded in 1909 , BBC Birding has provided enjoyment for over 100 years!
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| Snow White Moth |
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| Delaware Skipper |
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| Eastern eye Click beetle |
Insect expert : Matthew Wills
BBC Bug Night
Nethermead Prospect Park June 21, 2025
(Thanks to iNaturalist observers kenelma & elharo.)
Large Lace-border Moth/Scopula limboundata
Green Cloverworm Moth/Hypena scabra
Larentiinae carpet moth
Oriental Beetle/Exomala orientalis
Asian Lady Beetle/Harmonia axyridis (larva)
Maladera or Diplotaxis genus beetle
Ptilodactyla genus beetle
Phyllophaga crenulata beetle
2 other unknown Scarabaeidae beetle species (“June Bugs”)
(beetle IDs tentative)
Band-winged Crane Fly/Epiphragma fasciapenne (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)
Psectrotanypus dyari (midge: first iNat observation in Brooklyn)
At least 2 Adedes genus mosquitos
Several Chironomidae family non-biting midge species
Long-palped Ant-mimic Sac Spider/Castianeira longipalpus
Harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum?)
Lime Leaf Aphid/Eucallipterus tiliae
Subfamily Hydropsychinae caddisfly (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)
Rhododendron Leafhopper/Graphocephala fennahi
A bunch of other tiny Cicadellidae family leafhoppers
Assorted tiny wasps…
Leader Tom Stephenson
Note added location Plum Beach
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Green Heron |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Brant |
| Mute Swan |
| Gadwall |
| American Black Duck |
| Mallard |
| Bufflehead |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Osprey |
| Clapper Rail |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Killdeer |
| American Oystercatcher |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| Willet |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Laughing Gull |
| Little Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Least Tern |
| Rock Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Fish Crow |
| Tree Swallow |
| Bank Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| House Wren |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| European Starling |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Song Sparrow |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Boat-tailed Grackle |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| House Sparrow Sameers' s checklists Hi all, here are the two eBird checklists; I've also shared each with this group via eBird. Plumb Beach: https://ebird.org/checklist/ I also created a trip report containing both checklists; we identified 58 species today: https://ebird.org/ Here are our group photos: Video semipalmated sandpipers by Marisa https://drive.google.com/file/d/114xHvnDDopcEP7fSob1sk-Jan0dTV5Vh/view?usp=drivesdk |