Note an official CMBO field trip, but of interest. Notable birds or counts are bolded. The highest concentrations of birds were in oak groves along New England Road.
Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 4/26/10
Notes: With Dave La Puma. 2.5 miles, 2 hours 45 minutes. Fallout. Fog, 60's, wind light northwest. Moderate to heavy migration over Delmarva terminating in south jersey on radar; 2 lows spinning over NJ pushing south, preventing birds from moving north (we think).
Number of species: 85
Canada Goose 15
Wood Duck 2
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 8
Green-winged Teal 8
dark-winged scoter sp. 20
Red-throated Loon 10
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Great Blue Heron 10
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 2
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Willet 15
Least Sandpiper 1
peep sp. 10
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Forster's Tern 15
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 15
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 5
Eastern Kingbird 10
White-eyed Vireo 10
Blue-headed Vireo 8
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 10
American Crow X
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow X
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 8
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10
Hermit Thrush 10
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 8
Brown Thrasher 15
European Starling X
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 6
Yellow Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 250
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 5
Palm Warbler 50
Black-and-white Warbler 12
Worm-eating Warbler 5
Ovenbird 10
Northern Waterthrush 3
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 8
Hooded Warbler 1
Summer Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 10
Chipping Sparrow 5
Field Sparrow 10
Savannah Sparrow 100
Song Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 150
Northern Cardinal X
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 8
Bobolink 1 Hidden Valley @ New England, singing
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
Orchard Oriole 5
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch X
House Sparrow X
