Registrar: Louise Fraza
Participants: 14
Weather: low 30’s to 40’s F, wind 5 miles per hour
Bird Species: 61
All 14 participants, who registered, showed upon this mild, sunny morning on the first of December. Tom remarked that we might have had more activity on the Long Island Sound if the weather had been less balmy, but altogether we still managed to tally 61 bird species for the day. Tom detected some Snow Buntings high up, which soon spiraled into view. Most moved right on, but the one bird that stayed for a while got all our admiration. One of the more unusual sightings on this trip was a posse of 6-7 Common Mergansers perusing the area at both Rye Playland Lake and the Rye Marshlands inlet.
Species Lists
Birds
Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin (h)
American Goldfinch
Snow Bunting
American Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Cardinal (h)
