Registrar: Regina Ryan
Participants: 5
Weather: Partly sunny, 60’s F, winds, south 2-11 mph
Bird Species: 73
The observers also enjoyed sightings of eleven butterfly species and three species of odonates. The group visited many sites, which included the following: Calverton: Veteran’s Park, VOR Area, EPCAL, Preston’s Pond and then Westhampton: Gabreski Airport, Westhampton Dunes Overlook.
Species Lists
Birds
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (h)
Chimney Swift
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Willet
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo (h)
Red-eyed Vireo (h)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
American Goldfinch
Grasshopper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird (h)
Blue-winged Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler (h)
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Butterflies
Clouded Sulphur
American
Eastern Tailed Blue
Pearl Crescent
Mourning Cloak
Painted Lady
Little Wood Satyr
Southern Cloudywing
Northern Cloudywing
Common Sootywing
Zabulon Skipper
Odonates
Common Green Darner
Common Baskettail
Carolina Saddlebags
Other Insects
Common Shore Tiger Beet
Herps
Green Frog (h)
Mammals
White-tailed Deer
Woodchuck