December 7, 2008
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Mostly cloudy, temperature in mid-30s, gusty west wind
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Scaup sp.
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Herring Gull
American Crow
American Robin
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Submitted by Steve Schellenger
December 14, 2008
Hempstead Lake State Park
Conditions: Mostly cloudy, temperature in low 40s, south wind
Canada Geese (7)
Mute Swans (5)
American Wigeons (4)
American Black Ducks (2)
Mallards (30)
Green-winged Teals (2)
Redheads (2)
Hooded Mergansers (12)
Common Mergansers (8)
Ruddy Ducks (4)
Great Blue Heron
Red-shouldered Hawk (juvenile)
American Coot
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls (106 in a mixed group)
Great Black-backed Gulls (19)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jays (3)
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robins (48)
Northern Mockingbird
European Starlings (94)
Chipping Sparrows (3)
Song Sparrows (3)
Dark-eyed Juncos (2)
Northern Cardinals (2)
House Sparrow
Submitted by Joe Landesberg