From: janets33@
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Sent: Sun, Oct 26, 2014 9:52 am
Subject: Ridgewood Reservoir walk this morning
Steve and Heidi led a very successful Ridgewood Walk this morning with 16 people attending, including some new birders.
Steve is multi-tasking below: he was giving a brief history of the site when whoa- an accipitor flew by. That's a sharpie he shouted and immediately jumped into a demo of the sharpie's diagnostic flight pattern.
The walkways have been redone and are quite nice.
Highlights of the walk included a small flock of female purple finches and a larger flock of pine siskins.
Phragmites are encroaching on this reservoir pond. Rob says the plan is to remove them.
Ring-necked ducks, Gadwalls, Ruddy ducks, mallards and several pied billed grebes were diving/dabbling in the shallow water.
We had a nice raptor show here: sharp-tailed, Cooper's, Red-shouldered and Red-tail hawks plus a turkey vulture. And a skein of geese.
P1010163
List
courtesy of Heidi Steiner Nanz
Ridgewood Reservoir, Queens, US-NY
Oct 26, 2014 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
3.0 mile(s)
41 species (+1 other taxa)
Mute Swan 8
American Wigeon 1
Mallard (Domestic type) 4
Ring-necked Duck 2
Ruddy Duck 6
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Herring Gull 6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 2
Eastern Phoebe 3
Blue Jay 6
Black-capped Chickadee X
Tufted Titmouse X
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Hermit Thrush 6
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird X
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 60
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle X
Purple Finch 2
Pine Siskin 25
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
3.0 mile(s)
41 species (+1 other taxa)
Mute Swan 8
American Wigeon 1
Mallard (Domestic type) 4
Ring-necked Duck 2
Ruddy Duck 6
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Herring Gull 6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 2
Eastern Phoebe 3
Blue Jay 6
Black-capped Chickadee X
Tufted Titmouse X
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
Hermit Thrush 6
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird X
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Field Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 60
Dark-eyed Junco 30
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle X
Purple Finch 2
Pine Siskin 25
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
