EZ Birding at Two-mile Beach - Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

Highlights on our penultimate walk of the season included the large numbers of scoter and Northern Gannet migrating south along the coast, our first loons of the season, three immature Black Skimmer which roosted in front of us on the beach, and increasing numbers of shorebirds. We also had good looks at perched Purple Finch and a single Red-shouldered Hawk overhead. Leaders: Catherine Busch, Chris Marks, Janet Crawford, Lynne Breslow, and Mary Watkins.
47 species

American Black Duck  30
Mallard  2
Surf Scoter  150
White-winged Scoter  3
Black Scoter  1500
Red-throated Loon  4
Northern Gannet  150
Double-crested Cormorant  80
Great Egret  2
Turkey Vulture  6
Northern Harrier  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  4
Black-bellied Plover  80
Ruddy Turnstone  30
Sanderling  100
Dunlin  750
Western Sandpiper  3
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  3
Black Skimmer  3
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Tree Swallow  X
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Hermit Thrush  1
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  X
Snow Bunting  2   seen by leader
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  X
Song Sparrow  X
Swamp Sparrow  X
White-throated Sparrow  X
Northern Cardinal  1
Purple Finch  4
American Goldfinch  X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Immature Black Skimmer [Photo by Catherine Busch]