Nummy's Island - Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

An overcast evening with an incoming tide gave us great looks at a good mix of shorebirds. Leaders: Gail Dwyer, Patty Rourke, Bill & Lee Smythe, and Warren Cairo.
41 species

Brant  60
Canada Goose  4
American Black Duck  6
Mallard  4
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Common Loon  4
Northern Gannet  8
Double-crested Cormorant  35
Great Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1     Seen by leaders at end of walk
Glossy Ibis  1
Osprey  8
Black-bellied Plover  30
Semipalmated Plover  4
American Oystercatcher  12
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Willet  4     Eastern
Whimbrel  3
Ruddy Turnstone  20
Sanderling  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
Western Sandpiper  12     Nice group mixed in with the Dowitchers
Dunlin  120     One partial leucistic
Short-billed Dowitcher  22
Laughing Gull  42
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  6
Forster's Tern  30
Rock Pigeon  8
Mourning Dove  11
Fish Crow  5
Tree Swallow  2
American Robin  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
Song Sparrow  4
Red-winged Blackbird  18
Boat-tailed Grackle  22

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