At about noon today, I saw the Eurasian Wigeon at the south end of the East
Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Only a few feet away was a "Eurasian"
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca crecca), in the company of a pair of
"Ameriican" Green-winged Teal (A. crecca carolinensis). They and other
ducks wer
Peebles Island:
1 adult bald eagle perched along the Hudson River;
Mohawk River at Lock 6 (Flightlock Road and Riberty Lane, across from the
landfill):
About 50 gulls on the ice including multiple herring gulls, greater
black-backed gulls, ring-billed gulls, and one juvenile Iceland gull.
Jesse
Jean Loscalzo, Eric Miller, and I revisited Manhattan today [1-29-12] to
try to make up for our inexplicable skunking last week where we missed
all 6 target birds.
Today we dipped on the Inwood Dicksissel again, spending two hours in
the morning and one at the end of the day; it was a no show.
Date: Jan. 28, 2012
Location: Jones Beach, Point Lookout
Our NYC Audubon group had an excellent day of birding at Jones Beach, Point
Lookout. We saw almost 30 species. The highlights were a Black Scoter and
immature Black-crowned Night Heron at the Coast Guard Station. We saw very
well two
