The Field Trip at the State Park as part of the Cape MAYgration Spring Festival enjoyed beautiful weather and a nice variety of birds. Highlights include hunting Osprey, Forster's, Common, and Least Terns, Piping Plover, American Oystercatchers, Green Heron, Orchard Oriole, Pine and Yellow Warblers, and a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher nest. Leaders: Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg and Marc Breslow.
56 species
Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 18
Mallard 20
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 3
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 4
Black Vulture 6
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 8
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
American Coot 1
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 6
American Oystercatcher 4
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 20
Herring Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Least Tern 30
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 30
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 4
Eastern Kingbird 5
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 15
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5
Purple Martin 35
Tree Swallow 6
Barn Swallow 4
Carolina Wren 3 heard
House Wren 1 heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 heard
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 8
Cedar Waxwing 1
Common Yellowthroat 6 heard
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 heard
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Orchard Oriole 2
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 4
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