Location: Great Egg Harbor Bay & Inlet
Observation date: 7/1/10
Notes: CMBO Sunset Bird and Nature Cruise from Somer's Point. D. Freiday, D. Lord, K. Johnson, J. Crawford on Duke O' Fluke. Pork Island rookeries empty of herons & terns - latter result of last year's flooding? Malibu Beach skimmer/tern colony active. Bird Island and Cowpens Island rookeries very active. Gull-billed terns @ Pork Island WMA, foraging over marsh together.
Number of species: 37
Canada Goose 1
Mallard 10
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 1 being pursued by 2 fish crows near rookery
Great Egret 75
Snowy Egret 75
Little Blue Heron 8
Tricolored Heron 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron 7
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 15
Glossy Ibis 75
Osprey 25 10 juvs in nests, 15 adults
Clapper Rail 8
American Oystercatcher 40 several "chicks" nearly big as adults, capable of flight
Willet (Eastern) 6
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull 200
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Least Tern 10
Gull-billed Tern 6
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 5
Black Skimmer 300
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Fish Crow 30
Purple Martin 30
Barn Swallow 10
Marsh Wren 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2
Seaside Sparrow 8
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Boat-tailed Grackle 15
House Sparrow X
