Registrar: Linda LaBella
Participants: 15
Weather: Sunny, 50 Degrees
Distance walked: 5.6. miles
Bird Species: 35
Our day started at the Coney Island Pier, where we spotted a lone Black Scoter along with many Common Loons. Then, walking west across the beach to the 35th Street jetty, we were entertained by a number of Purple Sandpipers. The haze over the water impeded long-range sightings, but we still had views of huge rafts of Brants; and although Coney Island Creek Park was unusually quiet, we enjoyed a number of other species and some surprisingly stunning domestic-bred fancy pigeons.
Species Lists
Birds
Brant
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
American Black Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Purple Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Blue Jay
American Crow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
House Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
