Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with Richard ZainEldeen, 7/29/2017

Registrar: Ellen Hoffman
Weather: The forecast was for rain but it held off after a few sprinkles at 9:00.  It was quite windy and in the 70s. 
Participants: 8
Bird Species: 55

Species Lists

Birds
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall
Mallard
American Black Duck
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
American Oystercatcher
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
American Crow
Fish Crow (h)
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Marsh Wren (h)
Carolina Wren (h)
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee (h)
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Northern Waterthrush
Yellow Warbler
Northern Cardinal (h)

Butterflies 
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Eastern Tailed Blue
Spring/Summer Azure
Red Admiral
Common Buckeye
Monarch
Broad-winged Skipper

Mammals
Tracks of a Northern Raccoon