Napatree Point walk on 8/17/14

Napatree Point, RI
8/17/14
8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Leader: Jan St. Jean
2 miles
31 species
4 participants

• Double-crested Cormorant  28
  
• Snowy Egret  1
  
• Osprey  3
  
• American Oystercatcher  34
  
• Black-bellied Plover  8
  
• Semipalmated Plover  6
  
• Piping Plover  2
  
• Greater Yellowlegs  2
  
• Willet  4     both Eastern and Western birds observed, great comparison
  
• Lesser Yellowlegs  2
  
• Ruddy Turnstone  10
  
• Red Knot  4
  
• Sanderling  50     estimate
  
• Semipalmated Sandpiper  10     estimate probably more present
  
• Red-winged Blackbird  3
  
• Song Sparrow  3
  
• House Sparrow  8

• Short-billed Dowitcher  3
  
• Laughing Gull  25     low estimate
  
• Ring-billed Gull  3
  
• Herring Gull  15     estimate
  
• Great Black-backed Gull  8
  
• Least Tern  2
  
• Black Tern  6     highest individual count, could have been more present as birds moved in and out of the group constantly
  
• Roseate Tern  50     low estimate, 30 birds counted in one of the many mixed groups of terns
  
• Common Tern  300
  
• Forster's Tern  4     highest individual count
  
• Mourning Dove  3
  
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
  
• Tree Swallow  10
  
• Barn Swallow  4