Registrar: David Spawn
Participants: 8
Weather: “Unseasonably” warm temps in the 60s/low 70s. High tide when we arrived, started to ebb later in the morning. Mostly clear skies with weak northerly winds.
Bird Species: 39
Starting at the Community Garden, we headed to the west end of Riis Park to look at shorebirds/terns/gulls; then back along the beach road and across the dunes to the hawk-watch platform. After lunch on the pilings by the Silver Gull Beach Club, we returned along “Center Road.”
Species List
Brant
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Oystercatcher
Sanderling
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Osprey
Cooper’s Hawk
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Merlin
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Headed Vireo
Common Raven
Ruby Crowned Kinglet
Golden Crowned Kinglet
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
House Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Red Winged Blackbird
Palm Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler