March 5, 2006
Massapequa Preserve
Conditions: Seasonable (temperature in mid-40s)
Canada Geese (4)
Mute Swans (3)
Gadwalls (15)
American Black Ducks (10)
Mallards (67)
Green-winged Teal (15)
Hooded Mergansers (10)
Pekin Duck (2)
Cooper’s Hawk (1)
Ring-billed Gulls (450)
Herring Gulls (6)
Great Black-backed Gulls (7)
Mourning Doves (2)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
Carolina Wren (1)
American Robins (3)
Song Sparrow (1)
White-throated Sparrows (2)
Northern Cardinals (9)
Red-winged Blackbirds (3)
Collected and recorded by Steve Schellenger, submitted by Joe Grupp
March 12, 2006
Point Lookout
(between east and west jetties; walk shortened due to rain)
Conditions: Light rain became heavy at times, temperature in mid-40s, light SE wind
Brant (2)
Red-breasted Merganser (1)
Red-throated Loon (1)
Common Loons (6)
Horned Grebes (30)
American Oystercatchers (15)
Sanderlings (120)
Purple Sandpipers (40)
Dunlin (6)
Herring Gulls (44)
Great Black-backed Gulls (2)
Submitted by Joe Grupp
March 19, 2006
Jones Beach West End #2
Conditions: Temperature in low 40s
Brant (41)
Canada Geese (17)
American Black Ducks (8)
Long-tailed Ducks (3)
Red-breasted Mergansers (7)
Northern Harrier (1)
Black-bellied Plovers (2)
Killdeer (2)
Dunlin (40)
Herring Gulls (30)
Great Black-backed Gulls (3)
Rock Pigeons (11)
Downy Woodpecker (1)
Eastern Phoebes (5)
Red-breasted Nuthatches (2)
American Crows (7)
American Robins (16)
European Starlings (25)
Savannah Sparrow (1)
Song Sparrows (4)
Red-winged Blackbirds (81)
Brown-headed Cowbirds (3)
Collected and recorded by Steve Schellenger, submitted by Joe Grupp