The EZ Birding walk at Two Mile Beach Unit of the Cape May NWR had a couple of big surprises following Superstorm Sandy. In addition to the usual Great Blue Herons, and Great and Snowy Egrets we had a Little Blue Heron and a Tri-colored Heron. Northern Pintails and Hooded Mergansers have joined the ducks on the saltwater pan. From the beach we observed lines of scoter, Northern Gannets, and both Common and Red-throated Loons. Leaders: Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, and Bill & Lee Smythe.
53 species (+1 other taxa)
Brant 30
American Wigeon 4 heard
American Black Duck 20
Mallard 8
Northern Pintail 28
scoter sp. 250
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-throated Loon 4
Common Loon 3
Northern Gannet 10
Double-crested Cormorant 34
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 7
Snowy Egret 3
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Greater Yellowlegs 11
Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Mixed in with Greater Yellowlegs and calling "too, too"
Sanderling 30
Dunlin 3
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 9
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Forster's Tern 28
Royal Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 6
Northern Flicker 3
Tree Swallow 3800 Swirls and swarms in air and 1500 sitting on beach
Carolina Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 heard
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1 heard
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 45
Chipping Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Common Grackle 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 25
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 6 heard
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