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Shorebirds on the Bay – May 20, 2025

Leaders: Dave & Lynn Pollard, Ruth Bergstrom

Temp: 65°F

Winds: W 11 mph

Weather Conditions: mostly sunny

Norbury’s Landing – 1:00pm

21 species 

Species Count
Canada Goose 3
Mallard 3
Semipalmated Plover 4
Ruddy Turnstone 500
Red Knot 1000
Red Knot - Ruth Bergstrom

Red Knot photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Sanderling 100
Dunlin 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper 300
Laughing Gull 200
American Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Caspian Tern 2
Forster’s Tern 3
Royal Tern 8
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Snowy Egret 1
Great Egret 1
Osprey 4
European Starling 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
House Sparrow 4

 

Dennis Creek WMA–Conswell Road – 2:11pm

20 species 

Species Count
Clapper Rail 1
Ruddy Turnstone 250
Red Knot 500
Sanderling 20
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1500
Laughing Gull 12
Forster’s Tern 2
Snowy Egret 5
Great Egret 3
Osprey 11
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-headed Woodpecker - Ruth Bergstrom

Red-headed Woodpecker photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher - Ruth Bergstrom

Great Crested Flycatcher photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tree Swallow 2
Purple Martin 2
Barn Swallow 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Red-winged Blackbird 8

 

Cook’s Beach and Road – 3:24pm

20 species 

Species Count
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Clapper Rail 1
Black-bellied Plover 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Willet 5
Ruddy Turnstone 20
Laughing Gull 250
Ring-billed Gull 3
American Herring Gull 30
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Forster’s Tern 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Glossy Ibis 3
Great Egret 1
Osprey 2
Barn Swallow 8
Seaside Sparrow 12
Seaside Sparrow - Ruth Bergstrom

Seaside Sparrow photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Common Grackle 2
New Jersey Audubon