Highlights of the EZ Birding Walk include many swallows sitting in the parking lot and behind the dune, including Purple Martins, Tree Swallows and Barn Swallows; mixed flock of shorebirds on Plover Pond including Sanderlings, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, and Least Sandpipers; a late Ring-necked Duck on Bunker Pond; and many Ospreys. Leader: Chuck Slugg.
51 species
Canada Goose 8
Mute Swan 6
Gadwall 4
Mallard 10
Ring-necked Duck 1
Northern Gannet 30
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Egret 4
Glossy Ibis 22
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 6
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 4
American Oystercatcher 4
Sanderling 18
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 In a mixed flock of Sanderling and Least Sandpipers, same size as Least with black legs, feeding at Plover Pond, more gray than the brown Leasts.
Least Sandpiper 10
Laughing Gull 6
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Forster's Tern 6
Rock Pigeon 2
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 15
Purple Martin 60
Tree Swallow 25
Barn Swallow 15
Cave Swallow 1 By Bunker Pond, less rufous that Barn Swallows, no swallow tail, pale under throat, and forehead patch.
Carolina Chickadee 6
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 5
Eastern Bluebird 4
American Robin 10
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 6
Common Yellowthroat 4 heard
Yellow Warbler 1 heard
Pine Warbler 2 heard
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Eastern Towhee 1 heard
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 14
House Finch 3 heard
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 4
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/content/nj)
