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Coastal Birding at Stone Harbor Point – January 11, 2025

Leaders: Chris Marks, Dave & Lynn Pollard, Holly Lemieux

Temp: 30°F

Winds: NW 16-26 mph

Weather Conditions: cloudy

Stone Harbor Point – 1:00pm

18 species

Species Count
Brant (Atlantic) 12
Surf Scoter 2
Black Scoter 40
Long-tailed Duck 8
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 8
Dunlin 10
Purple Sandpiper 5
Ring-billed Gull 5
American Herring Gull 45
Red-throated Loon 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Robin 45
Savannah Sparrow 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3

 

North Wildwood–Hereford Inlet/Seawall– 1:53pm

19 species

Species Count
Brant 35
Surf Scoter 6
Black Scoter 8
Long-tailed Duck 4
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 8
Black-bellied Plover 1
Killdeer 5
Semipalmated Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 5
Dunlin 40
Ring-billed Gull 3
American Herring Gull 14
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 2
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 1

 

Sunset Lake – 2:35pm

9 species

Species Count
Brant 16
American Black Duck 2
Greater Scaup 8
Bufflehead 28
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Ruddy Duck 4
Ring-billed Gull 2
American Herring Gull 6
Horned Grebe 4

 

Ocean Drive–Coast Guard Ponds– 2:58pm

8 species

Species Count
Brant 18
Gadwall 35
Mallard 6
American Black Duck 12
Northern Pintail 6
Bufflehead 3
Ring-billed Gull 6
American Herring Gull 18

 

US-NJ-Cape May-732-754 Jonathan Hoffman Rd – 3:30pm

4 species

Species Count
Mourning Dove 1
Sandhill Crane 6
American Goldfinch 1
Northern Cardinal 1