Dave Lord tells us:
"Sunday Morning's Back Bay Birding by Boat aboard the Osprey was a good trip to appreciate the transition from Migration to high breeding time. A beautiful adult Tricolored Heron put in an appearance, his white breeding plume still intact. Also appearing was an adult male Northern Harrier (grey ghost) and the last of the migrant shorebirds represented by Black-bellied Plover and Semipalmated Sandpipers. We'll keep an eye out for Osprey chicks on future tours."
Location: Cape May County Back Bay
Observation date: 5/30/10
Notes: CMBO's Back Birdnig by Boat aboard the Opsrey.
Number of species: 26
American Black Duck 1
Double-crested Cormorant 100
Great Egret 16
Snowy Egret 24
Tricolored Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 2
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 27
Northern Harrier 1
Clapper Rail 16
Black-bellied Plover 7
American Oystercatcher 18
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Willet (Eastern) 12
Ruddy Turnstone 16
Semipalmated Sandpiper X
peep sp. X
Laughing Gull 550
Herring Gull 53
Great Black-backed Gull 13
Least Tern 1
Common Tern 43
Forster's Tern 75
Black Skimmer 2
crow sp. X
Barn Swallow 14
Red-winged Blackbird 14
Common Grackle 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 8
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
