A walk around Bush Terminal Park early this afternoon yielded expected winter waterfowl species: mallard, American wigeon, bufflehead, red breasted merganser, greater scaup, ruddy duck, gadwall, Canada geese, brant, ring billed gull, herring gull. Other birders reported horned grebe and female goldeneye. I did not see the glaucous or black headed gulls recently spotted along this part of the Brooklyn waterfront. Landbirds included peregrine falcon, fish crow, song sparrow and starling.
At Brooklyn Army Terminal I saw the best bird of day: a RED NECKED GREBE off the end of the pier on the south side that swam towards the Owls Head water treatment plant. The other addition was a house sparrow.
