As far as animal sightings go around Newtown Creek, one would be best positioned if one was nearest the mouth, as crabs, fish, oysters, and a variety of birds are present there. I hang out towards the end of the creek though, so my opportunities for observing visible fauna are somewhat limited by the environmental conditions preventing substantial species population growth.

There was a visible population of what I believe to be ring-billed gulls inhabiting this area, identifiable from a thin black ring coloring around the bill. Most of them were standing on a wooden structure jutting out from underneath the Grand Street Bridge. At any one time between 4 and 5pm there were no more than seven, but no less than three gulls on this large construction, all of them solitary and facing the sun. The birds would occasionally open their wings in a stretching motion, but would generally stay still. Intermittent shrieks were heard, but I couldn’t discern a pattern or cause of such. I only saw one ripple in the creek that betrayed the presence of larger fish, but the gulls seemed to be surveying the water nonetheless. When they chose to fly away from the perch, the almost invariably flew further south down the creek to a location around the bend. There was dried bird excrement on the ledge I was sitting, and I did spy some gulls standing on the tops of wooden poles, but the wooden structure (which I realized was part of an entrenchment for the rotating pivot pin of the swing bridge) seemed to be the main point of avian congregation. I can only surmise that these gulls were using the structure as a resting point before pressing onwards to a further location. The fact that there wasn't even any edible garbage around this industrial area puzzled me.