October 7, 2007
Massapequa Preserve
Conditions: Partly sunny, humid, mid-to-upper 70s, light-to-moderate
NNE wind
Canada Geese (4)
Mute Swans (3)
Gadwalls (2)
American Wigeons (2)
American Black Ducks (3)
Mallards (140)
Blue-winged Teals (12)
Green-winged Teals (17)
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Green Heron
American Coots (2)
Greater Yellowlegs (27)
Lesser Yellowlegs (15)
Long-billed Dowitchers (7)
Wilson's Snipe
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Hairy Woodpecker
Blue Jays (4)
Black-capped Chickadees (4)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robins (2)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Common Grackles (158)
American Goldfinches (3)
Submitted by Brendan Fogarty and Joe Grupp
October 14, 2007
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Conditions: Sunny, mid-60s, moderate NW wind
Snow Geese (25)
Brant (250)
Canada Geese (8)
Mute Swans (21)
Gadwalls (33)
American Black Ducks (86)
Mallards (29)
Northern Shovelers (21)
Northern Pintails (7)
Scaup sp. (85)
Ruddy Ducks (60)
Double-crested Cormorants (173)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egrets (18)
Snowy Egrets (16)
Black-crowned Night-Herons (23)
Osprey
Bald Eagle (immature)
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawks (12)
Cooper’s Hawk
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs (16)
Willets (7)
Dunlins (9)
Laughing Gulls (19)
Ring-billed Gulls (14)
Herring Gulls (32)
Northern Flickers (4)
Eastern Phoebes (5)
Crow sp. (4)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Yellow-rumped Warblers (76)
Song Sparrows (2)
Red-winged Blackbirds (14)
American Goldfinch
Submitted by Joe Grupp and Joe Landesberg
October 21, 2007
Levy Park and Preserve
Conditions: Sunny, low 70s, light WNW wind
Brant (237)
Mallards (8)
Double-crested Cormorants (2)
Great Blue Herons (3)
Great Egrets (2)
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs (4)
Herring Gulls (46)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpeckers (2)
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
American Crows (2)
Black-capped Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglets (2)
Hermit Thrushes (2)
American Robin
Gray Catbirds (3)
European Starlings (3)
Yellow-rumped Warblers (36)
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrows (3)
White-throated Sparrows (2)
White-crowned Sparrows (9)
House Sparrow
Submitted by Joe Grupp and Joe Landesberg
October 28, 2007
Massapequa Preserve
Conditions: Sunny, low-to-mid 50s, light-to-moderate NNW wind
Canada Geese (64)
Mute Swans (3)
Gadwalls (11)
American Black Ducks (8)
Mallards (129)
Blue-winged Teals (7)
Green-winged Teals (7)
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Osprey
American Coots (2)
Yellowlegs (mixed; mostly Greater, a few Lesser) (128)
Dunlin (6)
Dowitcher sp. (7)
Wilson's Snipe
Ring-billed Gulls (39)
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebes (3)
Blue Jay
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Towhee
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrows (3)
Northern Cardinal
Submitted by Joe Grupp and Joe Landesberg