"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
From: D.Evans <devansny@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, Mar 8, 2026, 2:36 PM
Subject: Hempstead/Jones Beach trip list
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
Peter-
What a great and memorable trip!
Here are the birds I recorded at each site, with notations if we'd seen them before.
[H] for Hempstead, [J] for Jones Beach.
Hempstead Lake State Park
Canada Goose
Great Blue Heron
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull (-imm, ID by PD)
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Hooded Merganser
Northern Mallard
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Song Sparrow
Black-capped Chickadee
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Jones Beach
Canada Goose [H]
Brant
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Eider
Horned Grebe
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Bufflehead
Greater Scaup
Herring Gull [H]
Ring-billed Gull [H]
Greater Black-backed Gull [H]
Lesser Black-backed Gull [H] --(? not sure about this. My ID based on photo of bird resembling your [H] ID)
American Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Northern Harrier
American Robin
Fox Sparrow
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Rock Pigeon
Point Lookout
Sanderlings
Common Eider [J]
Greater Scaup [J]
Red-throated Loon
Harlequin Duck
Brant [J]
Purple Sandpiper
Long-tailed Duck [J]
American Oystercatcher [J]
(Harbor Seal)
