Oh what a night! The wind was howling, the tide was high and a group of determined birders set out to challenge the elements and find us some birds. Despite the conditions, we had some great birds. We began our evening's adventure at Stone Harbor Point. The tide was so high we couldn't walk out beyond the end of the road but from there we had good looks at Red Knots and Western Sandpipers along with a good mix of gulls. We then drove over to Nummy Island which provided a large number of Snowy and Great Egrets, Black-bellied Plovers and Clapper Rails but no spectacular sunset that we have grown accustomed to. Leaders: Warren Cairo, Gail Dwyer, Shaun Bamford, and Deb Payson.
18 species
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Osprey 2
American Oystercatcher 20
Semipalmated Plover 3
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Red Knot 3
Sanderling 20
Dunlin 1
Western Sandpiper 6
Laughing Gull 3
Herring Gull 4
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Caspian Tern 6
Royal Tern 4
Mourning Dove 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Nummy Island
19 species
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 5
Tricolored Heron 1
Osprey 2
Clapper Rail 2
American Oystercatcher 3
Black-bellied Plover 20
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Red Knot 1
Laughing Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Royal Tern 3
Black Skimmer 4
Fish Crow 2
European Starling 5
Boat-tailed Grackle 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
