Warren Cairo et. al. report:
"It was a cool, blustery day but we still managed some good birds.
The Red Knots have returned and we also had a fly over Marbled Godwit and a leucistic Short-billed Dowitcher!"
Leaders: Gail Dwyer, Patty Rourke, Lee & Bill Smyth and Warren Cairo
Location: Nummy Island
Observation date: 4/28/10
Notes: Weather: Partly cloudy, mid 50's and very windy, gusts to 30mph
Number of species: 37
Brant 120
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 135
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 12
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 6
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 5
Glossy Ibis 1
Osprey 10
Cooper's Hawk 1
Clapper Rail 8
Black-bellied Plover 52
American Oystercatcher 20
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Willet (Eastern) 13
Whimbrel 9
Marbled Godwit 1 Fly over
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Red Knot 30
Least Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 170
Short-billed Dowitcher 30 one leucistic bird
Laughing Gull 250
Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Forster's Tern 16
Mourning Dove 5
Barn Swallow 2
American Robin 1
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Boat-tailed Grackle 25
Baltimore Oriole 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
