Kings County 2018 BKXMas - Preliminary numbers

Below is the Christmas Bird Count numbers for Kings County circle. The tally is 121 species. Numbers will be finalized after count period ends Tuesday.

Thanks to Rick Cech for compiling the data,with assistance from Paul Keim

And to all the birders young and old in the field participating in this great event.

We also thank the Prospect Park Alliance for generous use of the majestic Boathouse for the count dinner.

Toll next year - Dec 14th, enjoy your holidays and good wishes for the New Year

From: rcech <rcech@nyc.rr.com>
To: 'Peter' <prosbird@aol.com>; celaskowski <celaskowski@yahoo.com>; mjyuan <mjyuan@gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2018 08:25 PM
Subject: RE: 2018 BKXMas - Further Information

 

2018
	# Seen
Snow Goose	9
Brant	10782
Canada Goose	1938
Mute Swan	89
Wood Duck	4
Northern Shoveler	342
Gadwall	89
American Wigeon	68
Mallard	889
American Black Duck	485
Northern Pintail	9
Green-winged Teal	63
Canvasback	1	IRR
Greater Scaup	728
Lesser Scaup	82
Common Eider	50	IRR
Surf Scoter	98
White-winged Scoter	6
Black Scoter	178
Scoter (sp.)	372
Long-tailed Duck	457
Bufflehead	1135
Common Goldeneye	65
Hooded Merganser	72
Common Merganser	cw	IRR
Red-breasted Merganser	484
Ruddy Duck	302
Ring-necked Pheasant	1
Pied-billed Grebe	4
Horned Grebe	85
Red-necked Grebe	3	IRR
Rock Pigeon	814
Mourning Dove	239
American Coot	18
Black-bellied Plover	7
Killdeer	6
Red Knot	1	RARE
Sanderling	942
Dunlin	74
Purple Sandpiper	6
American Woodcock	3
Greater Yellowlegs	3
Razorbill	1	RARE
Ring-billed Gull	3373
Herring Gull	1208
Iceland Gull	1	RARE
Great Black-backed Gull	191
Red-throated Loon	84
Common Loon	183
Northern Gannet	21
Double-crested Cormorant	82
Great Cormorant	49
Great Blue Heron	33
Green Heron	cw	RARE
Black-crowned Night-Heron	1	IRR
Turkey Vulture	cw	IRR
Northern Harrier	18
Sharp-shinned Hawk	7
Cooper's Hawk	16
Red-tailed Hawk	25
Barn Owl	1	RARE
Great Horned Owl	1	IRR
Snowy Owl	1	IRR
Northern Saw-whet Owl	3	IRR
Belted Kingfisher	7
Red-bellied Woodpecker	61
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	2
Downy Woodpecker	50
Hairy Woodpecker	3
Northern Flicker	101
American Kestrel	13
Merlin	8
Peregrine Falcon	9
Monk Parakeet	5
Eastern Phoebe	3	RARE
Blue Jay	289
American Crow	517
Fish Crow	55	IRR
Common Raven	2	IRR
Horned Lark	25
Tree Swallow	174	IRR
Black-capped Chickadee	34
Tufted Titmouse	101
Red-breasted Nuthatch	30
White-breasted Nuthatch	77
Brown Creeper	6
Winter Wren	4
Marsh Wren	2	RARE
Carolina Wren	33
Golden-crowned Kinglet	1	IRR
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	8
Eastern Bluebird	2	RARE
Hermit Thrush	9
American Robin	187
Gray Catbird	8
Northern Mockingbird	162
European Starling	2549
Cedar Waxwing	4
House Sparrow	261
American Pipit	1
Evening Grosbeak	1	RARE
House Finch	128
Purple Finch	11	IRR
Common Redpoll	3	RARE
Pine Siskin	4	IRR
American Goldfinch	180
Snow Bunting	37
Eastern Towhee	2
American Tree Sparrow	31
Field Sparrow	7
Savannah Sparrow	39
Seaside Sparrow	1	IRR
Fox Sparrow	46
Song Sparrow	271
Swamp Sparrow	23
White-throated Sparrow	402
Dark-eyed Junco	59
Red-winged Blackbird	31
Brown-headed Cowbird	122
Rusty Blackbird	1	IRR
Common Grackle	1
Boat-tailed Grackle	88	IRR
Yellow Warbler	1	RARE
Yellow-rumped Warbler	126
Northern Cardinal	220

 

Total species: 121

Total Count: 32,568

 

Fwd: 2018 BKXMas - Further Information

Hear! hear!' screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'"

-- Henry David Thoreau

-----Original Message-----
From: rcech <rcech@nyc.rr.com>
To: 'Chris Laskowski' <celaskowski@yahoo.com>; 'Michael Yuan' <mjyuan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Dorosh <ProsBird@aol.com>; 'Paul Keim' <zoodraw@aol.com>; 'Bobbi Manian' <roberta.manian@gmail.com>; 'Dennis Hrehowsik' <deepseagangster@gmail.com>; 'Robert Bate' <robsbate@gmail.com>; Steve Nanz <steve@stevenanz.com>; Sime, Sean <seansime@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2018 10:57 AM
Subject: 2018 BKXMas - Further Information

With a few hours sleep, I finished off clean-up of the count data; this supercedes what I sent to a couple of you last night.

 

Some updates:

 

• As I noted last night to a few of you, I didn't unclick a box under "Scoter (sp.)" and these records got included
• Count total reduced from 122 to 121 (sorry)
• Some area totals also affected
• I corrected the notation for count week sightings, necessary to get area tallies right
• Adjustments show in "places x year" report, attached
• Top count area this year was SC (68), followed by FB (67 – new high)
• Also new high for NS
• Saves distributed across 9 of 11 territories
• Was this the first year Breezy led in this category? A number of their saves were rarities.

 

This is still preliminary, pending end of count week (and any late-breaking sighting information).

 

Peter, please send me a link to the posting when it's up.

 

Others, please keep forwarding incoming info and images.

 

Best,

Rick

Fwd: Dec8th Jamaica Bay List

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Chris Laskowski <celaskowski@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Jamaica Bay List

On Saturday, December 8, 2018, 6:20:48 PM EST, Chris Laskowski <celaskowski@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi Peter,

We had a really fun day today out at Jamaica Bay.  There turned out to be 10 of us in total including some enthusiatic newcomers, so enthusiastic that they got a speeding ticket from "the man" on the way into the parking lot, from not wanting to miss the start of a BBC walk we speculated.

It wasn't very birdy but we did get a very good sampling of ducks including 4 nice male canvasbacks on the east pond as well as some redheads.  13 duck species in total.  List below.  Charles, please send us a couple pics when you get a chance.

Thanks everyone for participating and thank you Bob, Ryan and Marc for driving.

Redhead Ducks photod by Charles Tang

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Dec 8, 2018

8:00 AM

Traveling

3.00 miles

266 Minutes

All birds reported? Yes

Comments: Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.8.2 Build 15

40 Brant

150 Canada Goose

25 Mute Swan

10 Northern Shoveler

2 Gadwall

15 American Wigeon

20 Mallard

10 American Black Duck

8 Green-winged Teal

4 Canvasback

3 Redhead

35 Greater Scaup

2 Lesser Scaup

100 Bufflehead

10 Hooded Merganser

25 Ruddy Duck

1 Pied-billed Grebe

3 Horned Grebe

4 Mourning Dove

5 Dunlin

5 Ring-billed Gull

15 Herring Gull

1 Great Black-backed Gull

1 Double-crested Cormorant

2 Great Blue Heron

2 Northern Harrier

1 Sharp-shinned Hawk

1 Red-bellied Woodpecker

2 Northern Flicker

1 Common Raven

2 Carolina Wren

3 American Robin

1 Gray Catbird

2 Northern Mockingbird

5 European Starling

25 House Finch

8 American Goldfinch

2 White-throated Sparrow

3 Song Sparrow

2 Red-winged Blackbird

3 Yellow-rumped Warbler

5 Northern Cardinal

Number of Taxa: 42

Nov 17-18 Fire Island

Smith Point County Park (Fire Island East)

Leader Peter Dorosh.
Participants Mary E, Donna E, Marc B, Chris L, Dan S, Bob O', Adelia H. Lenore S

List generously compiled by Chris Laskowski

Thanks so much for organizing and leading such a fun birding trip Peter.  I had a great time birding with this group.  Lots of good birds too!  

Here is the list I came up with, I know I missing a few here and there but I got the good stuff.  77 total.

8 Brant -- (4)
40 Canada Goose -- (3),(4)
9 Mute Swan -- (1),(2),(3)
6 Northern Shoveler -- (3)
6 Gadwall -- (3)
25 American Wigeon -- (3)
33 Mallard -- (2),(3)
2 American Black Duck -- (3)
2 Northern Pintail -- (3)
5 Green-winged Teal -- (3)
2 Redhead -- (3)
4 Ring-necked Duck -- (3)
3 Lesser Scaup -- (3)
15 Common Eider -- (5)
4 Surf Scoter -- (4),(5)
6 White-winged Scoter -- (1),(4)
55 Black Scoter -- (1),(4),(5)
23 Bufflehead -- (1),(2),(3)
4 Hooded Merganser -- (2),(3)
1 Pied-billed Grebe -- (3)
6 Mourning Dove -- (1),(4)
4 American Coot -- (3)
2 Black-bellied Plover -- (5)
2 Ruddy Turnstone -- (5)

Snow Buntings photod by Adelia Harrison

152 Sanderling -- (4),(5)
50 Dunlin -- (5)
20 Bonaparte's Gull -- (4)
19 Laughing Gull -- (3),(4),(5)
57 Ring-billed Gull -- (1),(3),(4),(5)
186 Herring Gull -- (1),(3),(4),(5)
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull -- (1)
37 Great Black-backed Gull -- (1),(3),(4),(5)
4 Red-throated Loon 

2 Common Loon
2 Northern Gannet -- (4)
2 Double-crested Cormorant -- (4)
6 Great Blue Heron -- (1),(3),(4)
1 Northern Harrier -- (1)
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk -- (4)
1 Belted Kingfisher -- (3)
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker -- (2)
2 Downy Woodpecker -- (2),(3)
1 Northern Flicker -- (1)
1 Merlin -- (4)
2 American Crow -- (4)
6 Red-breasted Nuthatch -- (1),(4)
1 White-breasted Nuthatch -- (2)
2 Carolina Wren -- (3)
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- (4)
3 Eastern Bluebird -- (2)
19 American Robin -- (2),(4)
3 Northern Mockingbird -- (3),(4)
200 European Starling -- (4)
5 Cedar Waxwing -- (2)
5 House Finch -- (4)
16 Pine Siskin -- (1),(4)
103 American Goldfinch -- (1),(2),(4)
2 Snow Bunting -- (1)
2 Dark-eyed Junco -- (1)
2 White-throated Sparrow -- (3),(4)
1 Savannah Sparrow -- (1)
4 Song Sparrow -- (1),(4)
1 Baltimore Oriole -- (4)
301 Red-winged Blackbird -- (1),(4) 

Pine Siskin photod by Marc Brawer

3 Yellow-rumped Warbler -- (4)
4 Northern Cardinal -- (1),(4)
Coopers Hawk ( Ocean Drive flyover)

1 Long-tailed Duck - (4)

1 Red-tailed Hawk - (3)

1 Greater Yellowlegs - (2)

6 Rock Pigeon

1 Blue Jay - (2)

3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - (4)

1 Hermit Thrush - (5)

1 Chipping Sparrow - (4)

2 Purple Finch - (2)

3 House Sparrow - (5)

MAMMALS: White-tailed Deer, Red Fox, Seal sp.

HERPS: Wood Frog, Eastern Box Turtle

BUTTERFLIES: Red Admiral, American Lady

Individual locations list


https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50078778

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50078755

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50078737

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50078728

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50078712

eBird Checklist – Prospect Park, Kings County, New York, US – Sat Nov 10, 2018 – 43 species BROOKLYN BIRD CLUB WALK

Leader Ed Crowne

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49830004

Fwd: BBC Trip to Breezy Point 11/3/2018

Leader Steve Nanz

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower  --Albert Camus

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Nanz <steve@stevenanz.com>
To: Peter Dorosh <ProsBird@aol.com>
Cc: Heidi Steiner <heidi.steiner.bklyn@gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 12:11 pm
Subject: BBC Trip to Breezy Point 11/3/2018

Hi Peter,

We had a very windy day on Saturday with light rain for the first couple hours. Despite the windy conditions, we did rack up 47 species which included Lesser Black-backed Gull at the Riis Park  parking lot and Lincoln's Sparrow at the Fort Tilden community garden.

Participants: 5

Locations: Breezy Point, Fort Tilden, Riis Park, Floyd Bennett

47 species:

Brant
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Sanderling
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Red-tailed Hawk

Accipiter sp.
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Finch
American Goldfinch
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
House Sparrow

Best,

Steve