EZ Birding at Two-Mile Beach - Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

A large, swirling flock of Tree Swallows greeted us at the parking lot as they landed briefly to eat bayberries. Yellow-rumped Warblers were everywhere. Offshore, coastal migration was exciting as we had multiple close flocks of mixed Black and Surf Scoter, and Double-crested Cormorants. Shorebirds have increased with good looks at Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin, and a lone American Oystercatcher. The salt ponds had a variety of ducks, herons and egrets, and a single Pied-billed Grebe. Leaders: Catherine Busch, Chris Marks, Nancy Watson, Marc & Lynne Breslow, Lee Smythe, and Mary Watkins.
40 species

American Black Duck  40
Mallard  10
Green-winged Teal  6
Surf Scoter  X
Black Scoter  X
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  X
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  8
Turkey Vulture  10
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  4
Cooper's Hawk  2
American Oystercatcher  1
Black-bellied Plover  25
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  X
Dunlin  X
Western Sandpiper  10
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Forster's Tern  1
Royal Tern  4
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  4
Merlin  2
American Crow  5
Tree Swallow  1000
Carolina Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Gray Catbird  4
Brown Thrasher  2     heard
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  X
Eastern Towhee  2
Savannah Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  3
Dark-eyed Junco  6

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Tree Swallows [Photo by Catherine Busch]

Tree Swallows [Photo by Catherine Busch]