Back Bay Birding By Boat Aboard the Osprey - Monday, August 13th, 2012

A great view of a juvenile Bald Eagle begging from its parent down the Cape May Canal. Many shorebirds passing through included more Black-bellied Plovers than previous trips have held. Leaders: Bob Lubberman and Dave Lord.
29 species

Double-crested Cormorant  23
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  12
Snowy Egret  8
Glossy Ibis  15
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  13
Osprey  45
Clapper Rail  2
Black-bellied Plover  11
Semipalmated Plover  10
American Oystercatcher  7
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Sanderling  13
Semipalmated Sandpiper  17
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  3450
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  23
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Common Tern  16
Forster's Tern  7
Tree Swallow  110
Barn Swallow  3
Red-winged Blackbird  14
Boat-tailed Grackle  5

Cape May Canal

Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Bald Eagle  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Laughing Gull  143