EZ Birding at Two Mile Beach Unit of US Fish & Wildlife enjoyed the usual mix of shorebirds on the beach including Sanderlings, Dunlin, Ruddy Turnstones, and Black-bellied Plover in good numbers. A few Northern Gannets and migrating scoters were spotted over the ocean. Ducks remain in the ponds along Ocean Dr. including Black Ducks, Bufflehead, Ruddy Ducks, and Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers. On the bay side of Ocean Dr. were many Brant and a small group of American Oystercatchers.
53 species (+1 other taxa)
Brant 300
Canada Goose 6
American Black Duck 50
Mallard 4
Northern Pintail 10
Green-winged Teal 6
scoter sp. 30
Bufflehead 5
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-breasted Merganser 8
Ruddy Duck 4
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 12
Double-crested Cormorant 40
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 2
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Black-bellied Plover 25
American Oystercatcher 10
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 36 Feeding all along water's edge on beach at Two Mile Unit
of US Fish & Wildlife
Sanderling 200
Dunlin 200
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Royal Tern 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow 10
Tree Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 5
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 170
Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 60
Common Grackle 30
Boat-tailed Grackle 4
House Finch 8
American Goldfinch 5
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
