Fall Migration Cruise on The Osprey - Saturday, October 5th, 2013

Great birding in the Back Bays of North Wildwood. Highlights include the somewhat unusual sight of a large flock of Sanderlings feeding on a mudflat, eight Brant in the bays behind Hereford Inlet, and two Marbled Godwits feeding in the vicinity of several Whimbrel. Leaders: Dave Lord, Catherine Busch, Chris Marks, and Warren Cairo.
29 species

Brant  8
Black Scoter  1     Seen in Cape May Canal
Great Blue Heron  13
Great Egret  24
Snowy Egret  17
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  16
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  1
Clapper Rail  3
American Oystercatcher  45
Black-bellied Plover  321
Greater Yellowlegs  13
Marbled Godwit  2
Ruddy Turnstone  14
Dunlin  18
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  17
Great Black-backed Gull  21
Caspian Tern  27
Forster's Tern  87
Royal Tern  13
Belted Kingfisher  8
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
Fish Crow  6
Red-winged Blackbird  21
Boat-tailed Grackle  15

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