EZ-Birding at Two Mile Beach - Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Location: Two Mile Beach
Observation date: 11/2/10
Notes: EZ Birding Two-Mile; C&MJS, JC, SW; sunny, 39 degrees. Smaller
numbers of shorebirds but nice variety on beach; Peregrine Falcon on The Grand
and one on beach; swirls of Tree Swallows overhead; and lots of Brant burbling
on restaurant made this an enjoyable walk.
Number of species: 43

Brant (Atlantic) 300
Canada Goose 4
American Black Duck 8
Mallard 2
Northern Pintail 4
Surf Scoter 4
Surf/Black Scoter 400
Bufflehead 2
Red-throated Loon 3
Northern Gannet 8
Double-crested Cormorant 50
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 24
Turkey Vulture 2
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Black-bellied Plover 30
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 3
American Oystercatcher 3
Greater Yellowlegs 9
Ruddy Turnstone 20
Sanderling 60
Dunlin 40
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Forster's Tern 6
Royal Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 5
Belted Kingfisher 1 heard only
American Crow 15
Tree Swallow 800
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 heard only
American Robin 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 50
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 6
Boat-tailed Grackle 8
American Goldfinch 4 heard only