August 19, 2007

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Conditions: Cloudy, temperature in upper 60s, easterly breeze

Mute Swans (24)
American Black Ducks (44)
Mallards (218)
Double-crested Cormorants (24)
Great Egrets (7)
Snowy Egrets (3)
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Herons (5)
Yellow-crowned Night-Herons (2)
Osprey
Semipalmated Plovers (13)
Yellowlegs sp. (39)
Semipalmated Sandpipers (13)
Long-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitchers (6)
Laughing Gulls (10)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gulls (7)
Forster's Terns (3)
Canada Geese
Northern Flicker
American Crows (2)
Tree Swallows (2)
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
House Wrens (3)
American Robin
Gray Catbirds (8)
Northern Mockingbirds (3)
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwings (12)
Yellow Warblers (3)
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrows (18)

Submitted by Joe Landesberg and Steve Schellenger

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August 26, 2007

Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve

Conditions: Overcast, humid, 79 degrees, light west wind

American Black Duck
Mallards (23)
Double-crested Cormorants (7)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egrets (3)
Green Herons (2)
Osprey
Semipalmated Plovers (3)
Piping Plover
Semipalmated Sandpipers (5)
Least Sandpipers (2)
Herring Gulls (17)
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swifts (3)
Tree Swallows (20)
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starlings (3)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrows (22)

Submitted by Joe Grupp