September 19, 2004

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Conditions: Sunny, unseasonably cool (upper 50s), moderately strong north wind

Double-crested Cormorants (19)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egrets (14)
Snowy Egrets (9)
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Herons (3)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Canada Geese (109)
Mute Swans (26)
Gadwalls (12)
American Black Ducks (18)
Mallards (94)
Duck sp. (120)
Northern Shoveler
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
American Kestrel
Black-bellied Plovers (4)
Laughing Gull
Herring Gulls (10)
Forster's Terns (2)
Common Terns (103)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Tree Swallows (2)
Gray Catbirds (4)
Northern Mockingbirds (2)
European Starlings (4)
Cedar Waxwings (20)
Eastern Towhee
Boat-tailed Grackle
House Sparrows (23)
Northern Flicker

Submitted by Joe Grupp

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September 26, 2004

Massapequa Preserve

Conditions: Overcast followed by clearing, temperature in high 70s,
light wind

Black-capped Chickadees (3)
Red-eyed Vireos (2)
Gray Catbirds (4)
Mute Swans (5, incl. 3 cygnets)
House Sparrows (3)
Common Grackle
Pekin Duck
Canada Geese (50)
Mallards (36)
Blue Jays (20)
Northern Cardinals (2)
American Robins (50)
Thrush sp.
European Starlings (50)
Northern Mockingbirds (2)
Belted Kingfisher
Gull sp.
Greater Yellowlegs (15)
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal (2)
Northern Shovelers (2 females)
Song Sparrow
Northern Flickers (2)
Cedar Waxwing
Great Blue Heron
Carolina Wren
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Parula
Eastern Kingbirds (2)

Submitted by Wendy Murbach