Registrar: Pearl Broder
Participants: 4
Weather: 50’s-60’s F, windy 12-15 mph, cloudy am, partly cloudy pm
Bird Species: 45
Our dedicated group of Linnaean birders arrived at Fort Tilden just as the rain stopped. We were shortly greeted by a variety of sparrow species, including several White-crowned Sparrows, but the highlight was a Vesper Sparrow found by Alice Deutsch. Ocean viewing was interesting. We saw at least 100 Black Scoters flying west to east. Dunlins were foraging in groups at the shore.
Species Lists
Birds
Brant
Canada Goose
Black Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-bellied Plover
Sanderling
Dunlin
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster’s Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
House Wren
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Butterflies
Monarch
