EZ Birding - Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

EZ Birding switched to Two Mile Beach Unit of US Fish & Wildlife Refuge today. It was pretty quiet but we saw plenty of Ospreys, Catbirds, Northern Flickers, Black Ducks, Double-crested Cormorants, and Great Egrets. Leaders: Chuck & MJ Slugg, Janet Crawford, and Lee Smythe.
50 species (+1 other taxa)

American Black Duck  5
Mallard  8
scoter sp.  35
Northern Gannet  4
Double-crested Cormorant  20
Brown Pelican  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  13
Green Heron  1
Osprey  10
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Semipalmated Plover  4
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Sanderling  11
Dunlin  2
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Laughing Gull  5
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  7
Great Black-backed Gull  24
Caspian Tern  1
Forster's Tern  12
Royal Tern  4
Rock Pigeon  4
Mourning Dove  13
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  15
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  70
Carolina Chickadee  5
House Wren  1     heard
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  18
Northern Mockingbird  2
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  25
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler  3
Eastern Towhee  5     heard
Savannah Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Boat-tailed Grackle  3
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  1

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