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Longtails in Love – February 13, 2021

Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Janet Crawford

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Weather Conditions: light rain/frozen mix

 

Avalon – 8th St. Jetty – Avalon Seawatch – 10:05 am

4 species

Species Count
Long-tailed Duck 10
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Common Loon 2
European Starling 100

 

Avalon – 83rd Ave. Jetty – 10:22 am

5 species

Species Count
Common Eider 20
Long-tailed Duck 12
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Herring Gull 9
Common Loon 1

 

Avalon – 704 7th St Jetty – 10:38 am

7 species

Species Count
Brant 6
Dunlin 8
Herring Gull 1
Common Loon 3
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1

 

Avalon – 1470-1558 Ocean Drive – 11:03 am

3 species

Species Count
Brant 15
American Black Duck 6
Ring-billed Gull 3

 

53rd St and 54th St – Ocean Drive – 11:20 am

3 species

Species Count
Bufflehead 12
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 1

 

Stone Harbor – Municipal Marina (80th-81st Streets) – 11:32 am

5 species

Species Count
Bufflehead 8
Red-breasted Merganser 27
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Red-throated Loon 1
Common Loon 1

 

Stone Harbor – 9001-9099 Sunset Drive – 11:46 am

4 species

Species Count
Lesser Scaup 12
Bufflehead 3
Herring Gull 2
Common Loon 1

 

Stone Harbor – 1 95th Street – 12:47 pm

3 species

Species Count
Surf Scoter 2
Black Scoter 24
Long-tailed Duck 4

 

Stone Harbor – 11208 2nd Ave – 1:05 pm

5 species

Species Count
Horned Lark 25
Lapland Longspur 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2

 

Nummy Island – 1:20 pm

13 species

Species Count
Brant 6
American Black Duck 1
Bufflehead 1
Hooded Merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser 5
American Oystercatcher 2
Black-bellied Plover 1
Dunlin 6
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Red-throated Loon 1

 

Sunset Lake – 1:54 pm

3 species

Species Count
Brant 23
Bufflehead 11
Red-breasted Merganser 2