Location: Two Mile Beach
Observation date: 10/12/10
Notes: EZ Birding Two-Mile Beach Unit; C&MJS, JC; sunny, low 70s; beach birding yielded a variety of shorebirds and gulls with raptors flying down the dune and over the marsh; still waiting for a larger variety of ducks. After walk some participants joined us on the Two-Mile Landing side of Ocean Dr. to look for Brant.
Number of species: 50
Brant 200 Two Mile Landing side
Canada Goose 12
Mute Swan 2
American Black Duck 16
Mallard 8
Surf/Black Scoter 150
Northern Gannet 1
Brown Pelican 4
Double-crested Cormorant 250
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 2
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 15
Cooper's Hawk 7
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 1
American Oystercatcher 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 100
Dunlin 50
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Forster's Tern 6
Royal Tern 8
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 30
American Crow 10
Fish Crow 1 Heard only
Tree Swallow 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Heard only
Carolina Wren 2 heard only
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 6
Brown Thrasher 1 Heard only
Yellow-rumped Warbler 30
Eastern Towhee 2 Heard only
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Boat-tailed Grackle 4
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 20
