August 7, 2005
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Sunny, hot, light wind
Ospreys (4 on the platform nest)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Tricolored Heron
Double-crested Cormorants (18)
Snowy Egrets (5)
Great Egrets (30 in trees)
Mute Swans (15)
Mallard Duck
American Black Duck
Northern Shoveler
Least Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
American Oystercatchers (30)
Yellowlegs sp.
Willets (8)
Sanderling
Canada Geese (many)
Laughing Gull
Northern Harrier
Yellow Warbler
Brown Thrasher
Song Sparrow
House Sparrow
House Finch
Northern Waterthrush
American Redstart
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Submitted by Joe Landesberg
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August 28, 2005
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Showers ended as walk began, hazy, hot, humid
WEST POND
Double-crested Cormorant (9)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Canada Goose
Mute Swans (95)
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallards (110)
Ospreys (2)
Peregrine Falcon
Sora (1)
Common Moorhen (1)
American Oystercatcher
Sanderling
Red-necked Phalarope (1)
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Barn Swallow
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Catbirds (2)
Boat-tailed Grackle
EAST POND
Semipalmated Plovers (6)
Greater Yellowlegs (50+)
Sanderlings (50+)
Semipalmated Sandpipers (50+)
Baird's Sandpipers (2)
Buff-breasted Sandpipers (2)
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dowitcher sp.
Submitted by Joe Landsberg & Joe Grupp
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