Wednesday, August 30, 2017

WEEKEND OVERNIGHT: NEW JERSEY’S SHOREBIRD SPECTACLE AT BRIGANTINE NWR AUGUST 26 - AUGUST 27

Egrets in marsh
Red-necked Phalarope (Heydi Lopes)
Leader : Peter Dorosh
Participants: Ed Crowne, Bobbi Manian,Karen O'Hearn,Kathy O'Toomey,Ryan Goldberg,Angie Co, Adelia Harrison,Alie Ratay,Heydi Lopes.

Comments; All sightings in one preserve Edwin G Forsthye NWR (Brigantine Unit)

Aug 26,27, 2017 
Protocol: Area
2000.0 ac
105 species

in Red "outstanding bird/rare "
in Blue -"Quality bird"
Orchard Oriole ( Karen O'Hearn)

19 shorebird species

Snow Goose  (out of season)
Canada Goose  
Mute Swan  
Wood Duck  
Blue-winged Teal  
Gadwall  
Mallard  
Wild Turkey 
Pied-billed Grebe  
Double-crested Cormorant  
Great Blue Heron  
Great Egret  
Snowy Egret  
Little Blue Heron  
Black-crowned Night-Heron  
White Ibis  (vagrant )
Glossy Ibis 
White-faced Ibis  
Turkey Vulture  
Osprey  
Sharp-shinned Hawk  
Broad-winged Hawk  
Sora  
American Oystercatcher  
Black-bellied Plover  
Semipalmated Plover  
Hudsonian Godwit  
Marbled Godwit  
Ruddy Turnstone  
BBC group scoping the shorebirds (Karen O'Hearn)

Stilt Sandpiper  
Least Sandpiper  
White-rumped Sandpiper  
Pectoral Sandpiper  
Semipalmated Sandpiper  
Western Sandpiper  
Short-billed Dowitcher  
Long-billed/Shortbilled Dowitcher  
Red-necked Phalarope  
Spotted Sandpiper  
Greater Yellowlegs 
Hudsonian Godwit ( Heydi Lopes)



Willet  
Lesser Yellowlegs  
Laughing Gull 
Ring-billed Gull  
Herring Gull  
Great Black-backed Gull  
Least Tern  
Caspian Tern  
Black Tern  
Forster's Tern  
Black Skimmer  
Mourning Dove  
Chimney Swift  
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
American Kestrel  
Peregrine Falcon  
Eastern Phoebe  
Great Crested Flycatcher
White Ibis with Glossy Ibis ; one of three ibis species ( Bobbi Manian)
 

Eastern Kingbird  
White-eyed Vireo  
Red-eyed Vireo 
Blue Jay 
American Crow     
Fish Crow  
Tree Swallow  
Bank Swallow 
Barn Swallow 
Tufted Titmouse  
White-breasted Nuthatch  
Marsh Wren  
Carolina Wren  
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  
Gray Catbird  
Brown Thrasher  
European Starling  
Cedar Waxwing  
Black-and-white Warbler       
Common Yellowthroat  
American Redstart  
Yellow Warbler  
Pine Warbler  
Prairie Warbler  
Seaside Sparrow (heard) 
Chipping Sparrow 
Song Sparrow  
Northern Cardinal  
Blue Grosbeak  
Baltimore Oriole  
Red-winged Blackbird  
Brown-headed Cowbird     
White faced Ibis (Heydi Lopes)



Common Grackle  
House Finch  
Purple Finch  
American Goldfinch 
House Sparrow  
Common Tern
Carolina Chickadee
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Field Sparrow
American Robin
Clapper Rail
Rock Pigeon
Snow Goose (Heydi Lopes)


Hudsonian Godwit with Greater Yellowlegs ( Karen O'Hearn)