We had yet another amazing Sunset Birding Walk at Stone Harbor on Tuesday. We started by walking the dune path to the beach and along the way had great comparative looks at Song vs. Savannah Sparrows. Once on the beach we didn't even walk 100 meters and found a group of feeding shorebirds that included 9 lingering Piping Plovers and 6 other species close by. We also had both Caspian and Royal Terns fishing in the surf right in front of us. While watching the terns we spotted a group of Bottle-nosed Dolphins close to shore that were rather "frisky". We saw them copulating and even jumping clear out of the water just beyond the waves. We next went to Nummy Island and quickly located the American Avocets we found last week that conveniently stayed at the same spot. The base of the "free bridge" held a huge flock of shorebirds that included a Marbled Godwit, Red Knots, and Western Willets among others. We ran out of daylight before we ran out of birds, but that's a good problem to have...
43 species
Brant 300
Black Scoter 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron 12
Great Egret 24
Snowy Egret 1
Cooper's Hawk 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Black-bellied Plover 68
Piping Plover 9 Just past end of dune path on beach. Includes the individual with the messed up leg that has been there all month
American Oystercatcher 180
American Avocet 2 continue at base of toll bridge Nummy Island
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet (Western) 26
Marbled Godwit 1
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Red Knot 28
Sanderling 800
Western Sandpiper 14
Dunlin 300
Short-billed Dowitcher X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Caspian Tern 8
Royal Tern 4
Mourning Dove 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Fish Crow X
Tree Swallow X
American Robin X
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 16
Savannah Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird X
Boat-tailed Grackle X
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
