Back Bay Birding by Boat on the Osprey - Monday, May 3 2010

Location: Cape May County Back Bay
Observation date: 5/3/10
Notes: "Osprey" boat cruise
Number of species: 49

Brant (Atlantic) 1200
Gadwall 3
Mallard 10
Harlequin Duck 1
Bufflehead 1
Ruddy Duck 1
Common Loon 5
Double-crested Cormorant 400
Great Egret 25
Snowy Egret 80
Tricolored Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 4
Glossy Ibis 10
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 40
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Clapper Rail 10
Black-bellied Plover 300
Semipalmated Plover 40
American Oystercatcher 40
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Willet (Eastern) 50
Whimbrel 125
Marbled Godwit 1
Ruddy Turnstone 15
Least Sandpiper 15
Dunlin 2500
Short-billed Dowitcher 100
Laughing Gull 5000
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 250
Great Black-backed Gull 50
Least Tern 4
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 200
Rock Pigeon 50
Mourning Dove 1
Fish Crow 50
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 15
European Starling 1
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1
Seaside Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 20