Location: Two Mile Beach
Observation date: 11/17/09
Notes: Wind kept the small birds hidden at Two Mile this morning. Good looks at sanderlings, dunlin, and ruddy turnstones on beach; large flocks of killdeer and brant on restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
Leaders: Chuck and Mary Jane Slugg.
Number of species: 44
Brant 125
Canada Goose 8
American Black Duck 35
Mallard 4
dark-winged scoter sp. 40
Bufflehead 20
Hooded Merganser 1
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 2
Double-crested Cormorant 70
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 6
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Killdeer 15
Ruddy Turnstone 25
Sanderling 125
Dunlin 75
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Forster's Tern 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
American Crow 10
Fish Crow 2
Tree Swallow 1
Carolina Wren 4
American Robin 35
Gray Catbird 3
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler 30
Eastern Towhee 2
Song Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Boat-tailed Grackle 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 20
