Dave Lord reports:
Sunday's Back Bay Birding by Boat trip aboard the Osprey really hinted strongly that Fall is coming. We enjoyed a roost of about 50 American Oystercatchers along Cold Spring Inlet's jetty, while a beautiful male Black Scoter bobbed in the background. A Peregrine Falcon gave us a bit of a show in the harbor as well. Even more impressive was the heron show around Turtle creek, with three Tri-colored Herons and a dozen immature Yellow-crowned Night-herons."
Location: Cape May County Back Bay
Observation date: 9/26/10
Notes: CMBO's Back Bay Birding by Boat
Number of species: 23
Black Scoter 1
Double-crested Cormorant 34
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 19
Snowy Egret 9
Tricolored Heron 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 11
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 6
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Oystercatcher 75
Greater Yellowlegs 11
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Laughing Gull 12
Herring Gull 24
Great Black-backed Gull 7
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 9
Belted Kingfisher 1
Tree Swallow 254
Boat-tailed Grackle 8
