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Migration at the Point – September 17, 2025

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Lise & Tom Hardcastle, Pam Hubert

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Weather Conditions: misty and breezy, slight drizzle

Good birding with various warblers and a great day on the beach with 5 gull species, Forster’s and Royal Terns and some shorebirds. Also, a “feeding frenzy” of double crested cormorants.

42 species

Species Count
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 3
Mourning Dove 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Sanderling 30
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 24
Ring-billed Gull 1
American Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 18
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8
Forster’s Tern 3
Royal Tern 7
Double-crested Cormorant 35
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Great Egret 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Osprey 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Merlin 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
American Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Carolina Wren 2
American Goldfinch 5
Field Sparrow 1
Bobolink 8
Common Grackle 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
American Redstart 4
Yellow Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Northern Cardinal 2
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