Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Sunday, September 15th, 2013

A special trip up to the Stone Harbor back bay area. Super counts of interesting birds, including double digits of Belted Kingfishers, and nine Tricolored Herons. Also, of note, were the two Brant that have been residing behind Stone Harbor all Summer.
33 species

Brant 2 Seen behind Nummy's Island.
Canada Goose 1
Mallard 6
Double-crested Cormorant 64
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 19
Snowy Egret 21
Tricolored Heron 9
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 8
Osprey 13
American Oystercatcher 16
Black-bellied Plover 12
Semipalmated Plover 2
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Whimbrel 2
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 24
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 13
Caspian Tern 19
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 47
Royal Tern 13
Black Skimmer 1
Rock Pigeon 24
Belted Kingfisher 13
Peregrine Falcon 2
Fish Crow 21
Tree Swallow 18
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Boat-tailed Grackle 3

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