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Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Point – October 14, 2025

Leaders: Shaun Bamford, Dave & Lynn Pollard, Holly & Mark Lemieux

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Sunset at Stone Harbor Point birding group, including Nummy Island and Hereford Inlet. Generally, the same birds were seen at each area, but with differing ratios of species. It was a cool cloudy evening, with very high tides on the beach and a mild to moderate breeze.

29 species

Species Count
American Black Duck 3
Black Scoter 50
Clapper Rail 1
American Oystercatcher 230
Black-bellied Plover 139
Semipalmated Plover 25
Willet 3
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Red Knot 12
Sanderling 250
Dunlin 1
Laughing Gull 4
Ring-billed Gull 23
American Herring Gull 24
Great Black-backed Gull 200
Lesser Black-backed Gull 15
Forster’s Tern 10
Royal Tern 7
Common Loon 2
Double-crested Cormorant 35
Great Egret 18
Great Blue Heron 13
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 12
New Jersey Audubon