December
8, 2002
Zach’s Bay Parking Field #4, N.E. corner
Walk moved to West End Coast Guard Station due to unplowed parking lots
Conditions: bright and sunny, temperature in the 30s, increasingly brisk wind
Northern
Harrier
American Oystercatchers (50)
Red-breasted Mergansers (20)
Sanderlings (100+)
Herring Gulls (6)
Brant (500+)
Canada Geese (20)
American Black Duck
Great
Blue Heron
Northern Shoveler
Blue-winged Teal
Yellow-rumped
Warbler
Great Black-backed Gull
House Finch
Semipalmated
Plover
American Crows (6)
Shorebird
sp. (200)
Cooper’s Hawk
Submitted by Wendy Murbach
December 15, 2002
Jones Beach, West End 2
Conditions: partly sunny, windy, temperature in the low 40s
Canada Geese (8)
Dark-eyed Juncos (6)
Herring Gulls (90)
Great Black-backed Gulls (28)
Horned Larks (10)
Sanderlings (2)
Red-breasted Mergansers (20)
Tree Swallows (9)
Ring-billed Gulls
Common Loon
Long-tailed Ducks (3)
Mockingbird
Peregrine Falcon (on jetty, harassing gulls)
White-winged Scoters (75)
Bonaparte’s Gulls (2)
American Crows (18)
Yellow-rumped Warblers (7)
Yellow-shafted Flickers (5)
Submitted by Wendy Murbach
