Sunset Birding at Stone Harbor Point - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

A pleasant evening at Stone Harbor with good looks at Western Sandpipers and Lesser Black-backed Gulls.  We left the point and had a quick look on Nummy Island and were entertained by a pair of Tricolored Herons.  Leaders: Warren Cairo, Gail Dwyer, Shaun Bamford, and Nancy Watson.
23 species

Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Egret  1
Osprey  2
American Oystercatcher  30
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  120
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Western Sandpiper  16
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull (American)  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  70
Caspian Tern  6
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  4
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  8
Savannah Sparrow  6

Nummy Island
16 species

Double-crested Cormorant  70
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  12
Snowy Egret  12
Tricolored Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Clapper Rail  2
Semipalmated Plover  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Western Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  14
Peregrine Falcon  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Boat-tailed Grackle  14

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

Tri-colored Heron [Photo by Warren Cairo]