September 11, 2005
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Mostly sunny, humid, temperature in upper 70s
Pied-billed Grebe
Double–crested Cormorants (25)
Great Egrets (5)
Snowy Egrets (8)
Black-crowned Night-Herons (2)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Mute Swans (155)
Canada Geese
600 Ducks:
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Red-breasted Merganser
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Soras (2)
Ring-billed Gulls
Herring Gulls
Great Black-backed Gulls
Laughing Gulls
Common Terns (90)
Forester’s Terns (2)
Black Skimmer
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plovers
American Oystercatcher
Yellowlegs sp. (10)
Short-billed Dowitchers (5)
Sanderlings
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoos (2)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbirds (2)
Great Crested Flycatcher
American Crow
Fish Crow
Philadelphia Vireos (2)
Tree Swallows (40)
Barn Swallows (2)
American Robins (45)
Gray Catbirds (3)
European Starlings (65)
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parulas (2)
Yellow Warblers (3)
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
American Redstarts (9)
Common Yellowthroats (5)
Northern Cardinals (2)
House Finches (3)
American Goldfinches (4)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Sparrow
Submitted by Brendan Fogarty & Steve Schellenger
September 25, 2005
Massapequa Preserve
Conditions: seasonably warm, sunny, calm
Great Egret
Canada Geese (76)
Mute Swans (8)
American Black Duck
Mallards (99)
Blue-winged Teals (6)
Pekins (2)
Green-winged Teals (8)
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Greater Yellowlegs (162)
Lesser Yellowlegs (8)
Wilson's Snipe (2)
Dowitcher sp. (6)
Ring-billed Gulls (15)
Common Nighthawk
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flickers (6)
Blue Jay (3)
Carolina Wrens (2)
American Robins (33)
Gray Catbirds (3)
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbirds (10)
Submitted by Joe Grupp