E-Z Birding, Tuesday, November 1st 2011

Sunshine and a chilly wind greeted us at Two Mile Beach Unit of US Fish & Wildlife Refuge this morning.  On the beach we found several species of shorebirds including Sanderlings, Dunlin, Black-bellied Plover, and Ruddy Turnstones along with 4 American Oystercatchers. The saltwater pan held Black Ducks, Pintails, Mallards, Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers, and a scaup.  On the bay side of Ocean Drive we added a Greater Yellowlegs, Killdeer, Least and Semi-palmated Sandpiper, and many Brant to our list.
48 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant  200
Canada Goose  15
American Black Duck  50
Mallard  6
Northern Pintail  8
Lesser Scaup  1
scoter sp.  150
Bufflehead  10
Hooded Merganser  6
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  8
Double-crested Cormorant  350
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  15
Turkey Vulture  6
Osprey  3
Northern Harrier  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Black-bellied Plover  20
Killdeer  7
American Oystercatcher  4
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Ruddy Turnstone  15
Sanderling  200
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4    

Least Sandpiper  2     

Dunlin  40
Ring-billed Gull  14
Herring Gull  50
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Forster's Tern  20
Belted Kingfisher  2
American Crow  8
Tree Swallow  100
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  2     heard
Golden-crowned Kinglet  4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  30
Yellow-rumped Warbler  40
Song Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Boat-tailed Grackle  3
House Sparrow  3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)