Salt Marsh Safari on The Skimmer - Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Weekly CMBO trip aboard The Skimmer.  Leaders:  Capt. Ginny & Capt. Ed.
35 species
Brant 2
American Black Duck 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 3
Tricolored Heron 1 1st of the season
Glossy Ibis 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 12
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Clapper Rail 3 heard not seen
Black-bellied Plover 40
Semipalmated Plover 14
American Oystercatcher 10 had 3 chicks earlier in week
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Willet 12
Whimbrel 7
Ruddy Turnstone 25
Semipalmated Sandpiper 20
Dunlin X
Short-billed Dowitcher 16
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 14
Common Tern 6
Forster's Tern X
Rock Pigeon 8
Mourning Dove 2 in the parking lot
Fish Crow 2
Barn Swallow 14
European Starling 4
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Boat-tailed Grackle 16
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