Indigo Bunting
Yesterday afternoon I hopped over to Jamaica Bay to look for the White-faced Ibis Sean Sime and Rob Jett found on Thursday. I didn’t locate it, nor did a couple of other birders who were out looking. (I did hear that it was relocated this morning, exactly where it was on Thursday. Maybe it’s just a morning bird.) However I did get some wonderful closeup looks at my first Indigo Bunting this year:
Also of note were the first Canada goslings of the season:
On the other hand it was a bad day for W birds: not a single woodpecker and only one unidentified warbler. I did, however, see quite a few Willets.
Total species count for the day was 49:
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Tricolored Heron
- Glossy Ibis
- Canada Goose
- Brant
- Mute Swan
- Gadwall
- American Black Duck
- Northern Shoveler
- Green-winged Teal
- Greater Scaup (1 M, East Pond)
- Red-breasted Merganser (West Pond)
- Ruddy Duck
- Osprey
- American Coot
- Killdeer (1, West Pond)
- American Oystercatcher
- Willet
- Laughing Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Forster’s Tern
- Mourning Dove
- American Crow
- Fish Crow
- Tree Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- American Robin
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
- European Starling
- Eastern Towhee
- Savannah Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal
- Indigo Bunting
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- House Finch
- American Goldfinch
- House Sparrow
