Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Point - Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Tonight's Stone Harbor walk was a beautiful summer evening for 8 enthusiastic birders.  We walked all the way to the point while enjoying great looks at our target birds.  We had close looks at Red Knots, (some still showing there red breast), adult Lesser-backed Gulls, American Oystercatchers, Caspian and Royal Terns. We finished with a beautiful sunset too.  Leaders: Warren Cairo and Chris Marks.
25 species

Double-crested Cormorant  8
Brown Pelican  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Osprey  3
Black-bellied Plover  30
Semipalmated Plover  45
Piping Plover  10
American Oystercatcher  100
Ruddy Turnstone  12
Red Knot  36
Sanderling  120
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
Laughing Gull  70
Ring-billed Gull  35
Herring Gull  40
Lesser Black-backed Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  45
Caspian Tern  12
Common Tern  16
Forster's Tern  4
Royal Tern  14
Tree Swallow  30
Song Sparrow  4
House Sparrow  4

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

Red Knots [Photo by Hugh Simmons]

American Oystercatchers [Photo by Hugh Simmons]