Mike Fritz et. al. report:
Location: Stone Harbor Point
Observation date: 9/28/10
Notes: Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor walk. Very windy (SW at 20 knots), but at least the rain stopped for us. Highlights were a Piping Plover that walked right up to the group, a first of season Junco on Nummy, Marbled Godwits and Pelicans on a sandbar, good views of Clapper Rail in the open, and a pair of Savannah Sparrows out feeding on a mudflat like shorebirds.
Number of species: 48
Brown Pelican 9
Double-crested Cormorant 300
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 35
Snowy Egret 12
Little Blue Heron 2
Tricolored Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 20
Osprey 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Clapper Rail 7
Black-bellied Plover 35
Semipalmated Plover 25
Piping Plover 5
American Oystercatcher 120
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet (Western) 8
Marbled Godwit 3
Ruddy Turnstone 30
Red Knot 40
Sanderling 180
Western Sandpiper 25
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 30
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 50
Black Skimmer 1
Mourning Dove 10
Fish Crow 20
Tree Swallow 300
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
American Redstart 1
Savannah Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird X
Boat-tailed Grackle 12
House Finch 14
House Sparrow X
