Registrar: Lori Lam
Participants: 6
Weather: Start of walk 65 degrees, NW winds at 10-12. Partly-mostly cloudy; temperature at end of walk 74 degrees, mostly sunny
Bird Species: 43
With northwest winds blowing and Hurricane Dorian thankfully hundreds of miles offshore to our north we began our walk. Gordon shared his knowledge of the 200+ year history of this important military base, now a part of Gateway National Recreation area, where much of the historical buildings remain, while still acting as an extraordinary refuge for migratory and nesting birds. Heading down to the beach, we spotted a group of 7 royal terns, a Ruddy Turnstone, and Sanderlings. At Battery Harris, several of us heard and some saw, what was to be the bird of the day, an Alder Flycatcher. Another item of note was the number of migrating Ospreys we continued to spot. Our count was 38, along with 2 Merlins and 2 Kestrels. We also saw an impressive number of butterflies and Odonates listed below.
Species Lists
Birds
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
American Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Ruddy Turnstone
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Double-crested Cormorant
Osprey
Northern Flicker
Merlin
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Alder Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Common Grackle
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Northern Cardinal
Butterflies
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur
Clouded Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Summer Azure
Pearl Crescent
Common Buckeye
Monarch
Silver-spotted Skipper
Odonates
Green Darner
Blue Dasher
Black Saddlebag
Wandering Glider
Ceteceans
Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
