Registrar: Amanda Bielskas
Participants: 20
Weather: Sunny, high of 87 with a slight breeze
Bird Species: 62
A couple of early arriving birders walked behind the Visitors’ Center and saw 100+ Mute Swans, Yellow and Black-and-white Warblers, American Robins, and a chipmunk. The rest of the group arrived at about 8:15 am and we all headed to the north end of the East Pond. Highlights seen there included the following shorebirds: American Oystercatcher, Black-bellied Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Hudsonian Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Stilt Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Wilson’s Phalarope, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, and, near the end of our time at the north end, a Western Sandpiper. Bonaparte’s Gulls, Blue-winged Teals, and Peregrine Falcons chasing some shorebirds were other highlights.
After a relaxing lunch in the shade near the Visitors’ Center, several members of the group headed off to Staten Island in search of Baird’s Sandpipers (they found two!). Half the group remained and headed back to the East Pond, where at the south end they saw five Pectoral Sandpipers, three Glossy Ibis, a Long-billed Dowitcher, a Northern Pintail, Gadwalls, and Northern Cardinals. The trip concluded around 3:30 pm. The eBird trip report can be found here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/73061
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Blue-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Ruddy Duck
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Hudsonian Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
tern sp.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
Downy Woodpecker
Peregrine Falcon
Black-capped Chickadee
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Mammals
Muskrat
Chipmunk
Insects
Blue Damselfly
Monarch Butterfly
Hummingbird Moth
Carpenter Bees
