Location: Two Mile Beach
Observation date: 10/5/10
Notes: EZ Birding shifted to Two Mile Beach and enjoyed a splendid
assortment of raptors and shorebirds this morning.
Number of species: 48
Brant 15 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
American Black Duck 20
Mallard 24
Surf/Black Scoter 2
Common Loon 2 flyover
Northern Gannet 2
Double-crested Cormorant 200
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 Thoroughfare Island from restaurant side of
Ocean Dr.
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 10
Bald Eagle 1 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
Northern Harrier 8
Sharp-shinned Hawk 10
Cooper's Hawk 14
American Kestrel 3
Merlin 9
Peregrine Falcon 6
Killdeer 5 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
American Oystercatcher 31 4 on beach; 27 on restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
Marbled Godwit 4 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
Ruddy Turnstone 60
Sanderling 250
Laughing Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 8
Herring Gull 17
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 120
Caspian Tern 3
Forster's Tern 6 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
Royal Tern 12
Rock Pigeon 4
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 14
American Crow 20
Tree Swallow 500
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 1
Gray Catbird 10
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 4
European Starling 15
Palm Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 2
Red-winged Blackbird 12 flyover
Common Grackle 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 9 restaurant side of Ocean Dr.
