I made a call on Facebook for anyone to join me on birding the East Pond at Jamaica Bay WR and got one bite from a member of the Feminist Bird Club. We met early and donned our boots for a mucky morning on the pond. We both got looks at a few good birds- many that confused us because, shore birds- they are tough.
Also, ducks are back. Which means only one thing...
So I had to jog my memory on what the heck I was looking at, Gadwall, Blue & Green-wing Teals, American Wigeon, Ruddy ducks, all among hundreds of Northern Shoveler.
Anyway, there were still enough shorebirds around to give me a headache...
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Phoebes (like the one above), cedar waxwings, and a solitary blue-headed vireo (see what I did there?) were some of my parking lot birds. |
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At the East Pond, we were immediately greeted by one of MANY Northern shovelers. |
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Birds that drove me nuts. Back droopy-billed bird, is a dunlin, 3 middle birds are white-rumped sandpipers, bird in front of middle white-rump is a semi-palmated sandpiper and the back to us, a pectoral sandpiper. Oy. |
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White-rumped Sandpiper |
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Dunlin. |
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White-rumped Sandpiper |
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Green-winged teal. |
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Pectoral Sandpiper. |
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A lot of common yellowthroat out there! |
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Also a lot of palm warbler. A chain-link palm is probably one of the best looks I have gotten at a palm this fall... |
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Urban palm warbler. |
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A single semipalmated plover. |
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A good day for swamp sparrows! |
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Also a good day to see the continuing American Avocet at the pond- more north on the pond. |
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That bill seems so unreal-- like how does it not break?! |
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A few Forster's terns out actively hunting. |
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One last white-rumped sandpiper for the road. |
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