September 13, 2009
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Partly sunny, north wind, temperature in mid-70s
Great Blue Herons
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Night-Heron sp. (immature)
Mute Swans
Brant
Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teals
Northern Shoveler
Cooper’s Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Downy Woodpecker
Tree Swallows (great flocks filling the air)
Carolina Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Waterthrush
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Submitted by Joe Landesberg
September 20, 2009
Hempstead Lake State Park
Conditions: Partly cloudy, light south breeze, temperature in upper 60s
Great Blue Heron
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren
American Robin
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Submitted by Joe Landesberg