Location: Stone Harbor Point
Observation date: 10/12/10
Notes: Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Walk. Led by Warren, Mike, Gail, and Shawn with 23 participants. We enjoyed a nice summer like October Walk and started on the beach to enjoy the weather where we had good numbers of shorebirds including Red Knots Knots and lots of sea ducks passing by close offshore. We then went to Nummy Island where we added lots of new species including Marbled Godwits feeding on the exposed mudflats and Clapper Rails standing still along the marsh edge. A nice sunset ended another bird filled walk.
Number of species: 57
Brant 400
American Black Duck 12
Northern Shoveler 4
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 6
Surf Scoter 260
Black Scoter 140
Double-crested Cormorant 85
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 40
Snowy Egret 24
Tricolored Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 6
Osprey 2
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Clapper Rail 15
Black-bellied Plover 180
Semipalmated Plover 90
American Oystercatcher 140
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet (Western) 1
Marbled Godwit 7
Ruddy Turnstone 35
Red Knot 45
Sanderling 600
Western Sandpiper 65
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 3
Royal Tern 1
Mourning Dove 9
Northern Flicker 2
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow 25
Carolina Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 50
Palm Warbler 2
Savannah Sparrow 2
Seaside Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 16
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird X
Boat-tailed Grackle X
House Finch 12
House Sparrow X
