Very High Tide. Note:
There were 400+ distant flocks of plovers and sandpipers observed on the south
wetlands of Nummy Island adjacent Stone Harbor Point. These birds were not
included in our count. Several species in this list (those greater than 10) are
conservative estimates.
37 species
Brant 40
Mallard 2
Clapper Rail 3 Three birds visible near the toll bridge, many clapper rail "kek" and "grunting" calls heard on the island.
American Oystercatcher 12
Black-bellied Plover 60
Semipalmated Plover 10
Whimbrel 24
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Red Knot 4
Dunlin 16
Least Sandpiper 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40
Short-billed Dowitcher 14
Willet 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Laughing Gull 300
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Least Tern 4
Forster's Tern 10
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 4
Tricolored Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Osprey 4
Merlin 1 Flushed several 100 shorebirds as this bird flew over Nummy Island.
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 2
Barn Swallow 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Song Sparrow 3
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 4
Boat-tailed Grackle 6
Yellow Warbler 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)
