The EZ Birding walk switched to Two Mile Beach Unit of US Fish & Wildlife. Thousands of Tree Swallows swarmed and whirled overhead and loafed on the beach like restless black sand. Raptors overhead included many Osprey, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, a Red-tailed Hawk and a Northern Harrier. Ducks, grebes, egrets, and yellowlegs rounded out the sightings.
49 species
Brant 10
American Black Duck 8
Mallard 10
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 35
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 12
Snowy Egret 6
Turkey Vulture 9
Osprey 20
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 10
Cooper's Hawk 4
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 2
Black-bellied Plover 5
Semipalmated Plover 6
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 50
Dunlin 12
Laughing Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 7
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 15
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 3
Chimney Swift 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 20
Eastern Phoebe 5
American Crow 6
Tree Swallow X Tree Swallows were swarming in huge groups over the entire
Two Mile Unit of US Fish & Wildlife Refuge for 2 linear miles; 1/3 of the beach
was covered with Tree Swallows sitting shoulder to shoulder on the sand. It was
the largest group of Tree Swallows I've ever seen and was comparable to the
Purple Martin roost in Mauricetown.
House Wren 1
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 8
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 20
Palm Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Boat-tailed Grackle 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)
