Leaders: Bill Boyle, Karen Thompson, Mary Watkins, Barry Hershfeld
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Fantastic sightings today of two Wilson’s Snipe and a Virginia Rail feeding out on the mud flats. American Oystercatchers are back on the beach along with a number of Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Red-winged Blackbird males are back on territory.
33 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 2 |
Mute Swan | 1 |
Northern Shoveler | 2 |
Gadwall | 11 |
Mallard | 4 |
Mourning Dove | 2 |
Virginia Rail | 1 |
American Oystercatcher | 11 |
Killdeer | 2 |
Wilson’s Snipe | 2 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 11 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 5 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 9 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 3 |
Red-throated Loon | 1 |
Northern Gannet | 60 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 1 |
Great Blue Heron | 3 |
Great Egret | 1 |
Turkey Vulture | 1 |
Northern Flicker | 2 |
American Crow | 6 |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 |
Carolina Wren | 2 |
European Starling | 2 |
Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
House Sparrow | 1 |
Field Sparrow | 1 |
Song Sparrow | 2 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 12 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 8 |
Northern Cardinal | 2 |