Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Sunday, May 13th, 2012

The Whimbrel apparently moved on, but other shorebirds were still around. Four Black Skimmers made their presence known at the Clam Processing Plant, the first for the year for our boat cruises. Leaders: Dave Lord and Bob Lubberman.
33 species

Brant  23
American Black Duck  4
Mallard  5
Double-crested Cormorant  18
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  15
Snowy Egret  4
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Clapper Rail  7
Black-bellied Plover  45
Semipalmated Plover  8
American Oystercatcher  16
Spotted Sandpiper  8
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Whimbrel  2
Ruddy Turnstone  15
Semipalmated Sandpiper  54
Least Sandpiper  21
Dunlin  254
Short-billed Dowitcher  36
Laughing Gull  8
Herring Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  16
Forster's Tern  34
Black Skimmer  4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Tree Swallow  6
Barn Swallow  24
Yellow Warbler  1
Red-winged Blackbird  16
Common Grackle  5

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