With no obvious migration taking place, Higbee Beach can be a quiet place -
unless you know where to go! On this morning's first Higbee walk of the
season, we headed straight for the beach and were confronted with wall to
wall Gannets and a supporting cast of up-close Red-breasted Mergansers,
American Oystercatchers and a whole bunch of other stuff. The season's first
parties of egrets were heading north up the bay, while the fields gave us
Palm Warbler, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and singing Eastern Towhee and Field
Sparrows. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Warren Cairo, Steve Weis, Karl Lukens, and Chris Adams.
41 species
Canada Goose 2
Mallard 2
Surf Scoter 15
Black Scoter 45
Red-breasted Merganser 14
Red-throated Loon 2
Northern Gannet 450
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 12
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Semipalmated Plover 8
American Oystercatcher 2
Sanderling 2
Laughing Gull 35
Ring-billed Gull 15
Herring Gull (American) 40
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Forster's Tern 1
Mourning Dove 4
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 4
Blue Jay 1
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 10
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Palm Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 9
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 4
Common Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 12
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
