Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Point - Tuesday, September 20th 2011

Stone Harbor Point held a Peregrine Falcon and five Piping Plovers, down from last week's thirteen, on the beach, while eight Black Skimmers and 13 Black Scoters were highlights from offshore. At the Free Bridge over Great Channel, seven Marbled Godwits were observed for the second week in a row, and a large flock of Red Knots came in from the southeast. We finished the walk with a Night Heron show, as both Black- and Yellow-crowneds were visible in the trees past the bridge.

32 species

Black Scoter  16
Double-crested Cormorant  17
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  7
Snowy Egret  18
Black-crowned Night-Heron  9
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1
Osprey  4
Peregrine Falcon  1
Clapper Rail  2
Black-bellied Plover  24
Semipalmated Plover  13
Piping Plover  5
American Oystercatcher  20
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Ruddy Turnstone  8
Sanderling  175
Semipalmated Sandpiper  23
Western Sandpiper  9
Laughing Gull  17
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  23
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  26
Caspian Tern  12
Common Tern  3
Forster's Tern  17
Royal Tern  15
Black Skimmer  8
Eastern Towhee  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  4

Nummy's Island,

16 species (+2 other taxa)

Great Blue Heron  4
Black-crowned Night-Heron  10
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1
Osprey  3
Black-bellied Plover  43
American Oystercatcher  28
Willet  15     Western's
Marbled Godwit  7
Red Knot  45
Semipalmated Sandpiper  27
peep sp.  X
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  3
Laughing Gull  9
Herring Gull  15
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Caspian Tern  6
Royal Tern  2