Location: Barnegat Lighthouse State Park
Observation date: 12/4/10
Notes: CMBO field trip. Wind west 20-25, partly to mostly cloudy, 30's.
Number of species: 38
Brant (Atlantic) 300
Canada Goose 30
American Black Duck 1
Common Eider 580 Actual count. 260 north side of inlet (most counted when this flock lifted; there easily could have been more), nearly 300 south side, balance in inlet itself. Remarkable.
Harlequin Duck 40
Surf Scoter 100
White-winged Scoter 5
Black Scoter 20
Long-tailed Duck 75
Red-breasted Merganser 200
Red-throated Loon 25
Common Loon 5
Northern Gannet 200
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Northern Harrier 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 5
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Purple Sandpiper 20
Dunlin 300
Black-legged Kittiwake 1
Bonaparte's Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull 2000
Great Black-backed Gull 200
Mourning Dove 5
American Crow 10
crow sp. 1
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
House Finch 5
House Sparrow 25
