Registrar: Anne Lazarus
Participants: 3
Weather: Upper 40’s F, cloudy am, sunny pm, windy with gusts over 40 mph
Bird Species: 52
Windy, gusty weather was a major factor. The winds increased with each hour. Peter decided to plan our birding around the weather. Our first stop was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where 16 species of ducks were identified, including a Eurasian Wigeon and a Redhead. We saw several flocks of Greater Yellowlegs and two Pied-billed Grebes. We were amazed by the numbers of Great Egrets. Two Common Ravens braved the weather. Floyd Bennett was our second stop, and the antics of a Merlin flying low over the concrete, fighting the wind was an interesting sighting. Our final stop was Marine Park Nature Center where our attention was focused on a flock of about 7 Greater Yellowlegs feeding on the mud flat. A big surprise was a Lesser Yellowlegs in that group, usually not found in November in New York.
Species Lists
Birds
Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Northern Harrier
Belted Kingfisher (h)
Northern Flicker
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
