Registrar: Anne Lazarus
Participants: 4
Weather: Sunny, 70’s-low 80’s, calm
Bird Species: 47
Four Linnaean birders enjoyed a day of great birding in Sandy Hook with leader Robert Machover. We heard and saw a number of lovely White-eyed Vireos. Other highlights included a beautiful Marsh Wren, 15 Royal Terns on the sandbar, a Purple Finch among the Cedar Waxwings, a close look at a perched Merlin and the ubiquitous Red-breasted Nuthatches. We also saw an Eastern Willet tucked away among the American Oystercatchers.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Willet (Eastern)
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Parula
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (h)
Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Cabbage White
Orange Sulfur
Question Mark
Common Buckeye
American Copper
Monarch Butterfly
Odonates
Green Darner
Wandering Glider
Spot-winged Glider
Black Saddlebags
