January 5, 2003
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: cloudy, wind under 5 mph, temperature 33 degrees
House Finches (50)
Canada Geese (101)
Yellow-rumped Warblers (2)
American Wigeon (16)
Mockingbirds (2)
American Black Ducks (76)
Brant (70)
Buffleheads (10)
Red-breasted Mergansers (6)
Green-winged Teal (2)
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Mallard (9)
Song Sparrow (3)
Hooded Mergansers (10)
Great Black-backed Gulls (6)
Cormorants (12)
Peregrine Falcon
American Tree Sparrows (20)
Scaup sp. (175)
Ruddy Ducks (225)
Shovelers (18)
Red-winged Blackbird
Mourning Doves (6)
Gadwalls (2)
Ring-billed Gull
Horned Grebe
American Robins (12)
White-throated Sparrows (9)
Cardinals (2)
House Sparrow
Downy Woodpecker
Goldfinches (2)
Carolina Wren
Submitted by Wendy Murbach
January 12, 2003
Massapequa Preserve
Conditions: sunny, moderate wind from west, temperature 25-30 degrees
Great Blue Heron
Mute Swans (2)
Canada Geese (148)
Mallards (181)
American Black Ducks (7)
Gadwalls (8)
Green-winged Teal (14)
American Wigeon (6)
Wood Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Mergansers (2)
Killdeer (2)
Greater Yellowlegs (2)
Wilson’s (formerly Common) Snipe (2)
Dowitcher sp. (2)
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gulls (142)
Mourning Doves (3)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpeckers (2)
Blue Jays (2)
White-breasted Nuthatches (3)
Northern Mockingbird (4)
American Robins (4)
Northern Cardinal (3)
House Finch
American Goldfinches (2)
White-throated Sparrows (14)
Submitted by Joe Grupp
January 19, 2003
Jones Beach, West End 2 and Point Lookout
Conditions: sunny, 5 mph wind, temperature 20 degrees
Weatherproof Birders: 10 (walk officially cancelled due to low temperature)
American Crows (5)
Brant (9)
Herring Gulls (150)
Surf Scoter (female)
Northern Shoveler (9)
Gadwall
Peregrine Falcon
American Black Ducks (19)
Red-throated Loons (3)
Great Black-backed Gulls (20)
Sanderlings (8)
Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw)
Red-breasted Mergansers (4)
Dunlin (5)
Mourning Doves (2)
Yellow-rumped Warblers (10)
European Starlings (24)
Northern Mockingbird
House Sparrows (2)
Double-crested Cormorants (3)
Bonaparte’s Gull
We drove over to Point Lookout Town Park, walked along the beach toward the rocks that line the inlet, and saw:
Black-bellied Plovers (2 in parking lot)
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrows (2)
Brant (too many to count)
White-winged Scoter
Red-breasted Mergansers (16)
Sanderlings (4)
Herring Gulls (30)
Horned Grebes (2)
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Northern Harrier
Ruddy Turnstone
Red-throated Loons (3)
Harlequin Duck (5; two males and three females)
Bonaparte’s Gulls (150)
Purple Sandpipers (30)
Submitted by Wendy Murbach
January 26, 2003
Hempstead Lake State Park
Conditions: Cloudy, little wind, temperature 29 degrees
Canada Goose (100)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Downy Woodpeckers (3)
Herring Gulls (too many to count)
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-bellied Woodpeckers (3)
Brown Creeper
Tufted Titmouse
Hawk sp.
Ruddy Ducks (5)
Great Black-backed Gulls (50)
American Black Ducks (2)
Blue Jay
Northern Cardinals (3)
American Crows (10)
White-throated Sparrows (6)
American Robins (2)
Mallards (13)
Hairy Woodpecker (2; male & female)
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Unidentified different ducks (2)
Submitted by Wendy Murbach
