Registrar: Alice McInerney
Participants: 20
Weather: Sunny, cold. Temp: 30’s. Very little wind.
Bird Species: 57
Many thanks to our co-leaders, Tom Burke and Gail Benson, who organized a rigorous and exciting day of birding in Westchester County.
We began at Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary and Rye Playland, where we were treated to views of Snow Buntings, three merganser species, and Great Cormorants, among many other species. We then moved to Bowman Avenue Pond at Rye Ridge Plaza to search for the Greater White-fronted Goose. With much skill, our leaders found the bird (among about 400 Canada Geese), and with much patience, they made sure that the entire group had excellent views. After lunch at the Marshlands Conservancy’s picnic tables, we walked its wooded and seaside trails and found many more species, including several Killdeer.
Species Lists
Birds
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
American Black Duck
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Wild Turkey
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Snow Bunting
Field Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Cardinal
