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SO.MANY.SEABIRDS. Special Field Trip – November 1, 2025

Leaders: Shaun Bamford, Dave & Lynn Pollard, John McElroy, Holly Lemieux, Tyler Savage

Temp: 58°F

Winds: 25 mph gusts

Weather Conditions: partly cloudy

Avalon–8th St. Jetty (Avalon Seawatch 2015-present) – 1:25pm

19 species 

Species Count
Mallard 3
Northern Pintail 7
Green-winged Teal 4
Surf Scoter 10
Black Scoter 30
scoter sp. 65
Semipalmated Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 80
Dunlin 4
Ring-billed Gull 3
American Herring Gull 7
Great Black-backed Gull 8
Forster’s Tern 4
Common Loon 3
Double-crested Cormorant 130
Great Blue Heron 4
Osprey 1
Common Raven 1
American Robin 1

 

Stone Harbor Point – 3:23pm

19 species 

Species Count
Black Scoter 26
Black-bellied Plover 2
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 60
Dunlin 15
Purple Sandpiper 1
American Herring Gull 8
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Royal Tern 6
Double-crested Cormorant 250
Great Egret 7
Great Blue Heron 3
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 1
American Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
New Jersey Audubon