On a sunny but windy day, a couple of loops around Brig's wildlife drive, under the guidance of Pete Bacinski and Mike Mandracchia, yielded up 5 FOY species and a couple of relative rarities.
The highlights were:
* Our FOY Snowy Egrets and Glossy Ibises (we scanned the ibises for white-faced without results).
* 3 each of Canvasbacks and Redheads, late for this date.
* A Bonaparte's Gull (rare for Brig, it being more of a seashore gull) sitting on a small island with an early Caspian Tern. The tern huge compared to the Boney and almost as big as the Great Black-backed Gulls with which it was sharing the narrow spit of sand
* The bouncing, ping-pong ball song of a couple of Field Sparrows, heard as we drove along the upland portion of the trail.
* My first (Shari had them earlier) Purple Martin of the year. The martin houses went up today near the visitor's center, so probably our next visit will have many more in residence.
*& ever the crowd favorite in the Zirlin household, 7 American Oystercatchers scattered through the marshes.
Our day list:
67 species
Snow Goose 4
Brant 200
Canada Goose 40
Mute Swan 9
Gadwall 20
American Wigeon 3
American Black Duck 90
Mallard 5
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 25
Northern Pintail 5
Green-winged Teal 25
Canvasback 3
Redhead 3 From south dike looking out toward A.C.
Ring-necked Duck 2 Entrance Pond
Greater Scaup 5
Bufflehead 25
Hooded Merganser 1 First turn
Red-breasted Merganser 7
Ruddy Duck 4
Red-throated Loon 1
Common Loon 1
Horned Grebe 5
Double-crested Cormorant 100
Great Blue Heron 10
Great Egret 18
Snowy Egret 5
Glossy Ibis 12
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 12
Northern Harrier 2
Bald Eagle 1 From south dike
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Coot 1
American Oystercatcher 7
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Dunlin 50
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 20
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Caspian Tern 1 On north dike, with BOGU, GBBG, & AMOY.
Mourning Dove 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Heard, parking lot
Downy Woodpecker 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Phoebe 2 Visitor's Ctr
Blue Jay 1 Heard
American Crow 1 Heard
Fish Crow 20
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 25
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 1 Heard
American Robin 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
Chipping Sparrow 1 Heard, parking lot
Field Sparrow 2 Heard, upland portion of drive
Song Sparrow 5 Heard
Northern Cardinal 2 Heard
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Boat-tailed Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 1 Heard, parking lot
American Goldfinch 2
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