I led the 2009 Quacker Quest in Kings County today. Six of us birded Prospect Park, Gravesend Bay, Drier Offerman, Marine Park, Floyd Bennet Field, and finally Jamaica Bay. We had a total of 71 species...highlights were 2 Purple Finches, 2 Green Winged Teal, 8 Wood Ducks and a Merlin at Prospect Park, 9 Purple Sandpipers, a Great Cormorant and 2 Red-Necked Grebes at Gravesends Bay, a Redhead and 3 Greater Yellowlegs at Marine Park, and a single Northern Pintail at Jamaica Bay. We missed the Barrows and Ross's at Jamaica, and the Killdeer I'd seen yesterday at Drier, but we enjoyed the great weather and the great birding in Brooklyn!
Species List:
Snow Goose X
Brant X
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Wood Duck 8
Gadwall X
American Wigeon X
American Black Duck X
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal (American) 16
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck 8
Greater Scaup 400
Lesser Scaup 30
Bufflehead X
Common Goldeneye 25
Hooded Merganser X
Red-breasted Merganser X
Ruddy Duck X
Red-throated Loon X
Common Loon X
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Horned Grebe X
Red-necked Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron X
Northern Harrier X
Cooper's Hawk X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Merlin X
American Coot X
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Purple Sandpiper 9
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker X
Downy Woodpecker X
Northern Flicker X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
crow sp. X
Black-capped Chickadee X
Tufted Titmouse X
Red-breasted Nuthatch X
White-breasted Nuthatch X
Brown Creeper X
Carolina Wren X
American Robin X
Northern Mockingbird X
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) X
Eastern Towhee 2
Fox Sparrow X
Song Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow X
White-throated Sparrow X
Dark-eyed Junco X
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Boat-tailed Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
Purple Finch X
House Finch X
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
