Birder Ray Duffy went to four sites in Secaucus on Thursday -- Mill Creek Marsh, Schmidt's Woods, Laurel Hill County Park and Mill Creek Point.
Ray reports:
" I found a pectoral sandpiper this afternoon at Mill Creek Marsh, my
first for Hudson County. I also saw an indigo bunting.
While crossing town to visit Schmidt's
Woods, I stopped at the Huber Street
"I found four laughing gulls at Laurel Hill County Park with a
large flock of seagulls hanging out near the river behind the new Xchange
development.
"I found a yellow-billed cuckoo at Schmidt's Woods."
Click "Continue reading ... " to see Ray's report.
Mill Creek Marsh - 1pm-2pm 23
species. High tide
1 great blue
heron
4 great
egret
3 snowy
egrets
4 semipalmated
plover
8 greater
yellowlegs
4 lesser
yellowlegs
200 semipalmated
sandpiper
1 pectoral
sandpiper
6 forster's
terns
2 marsh
wrens
5 yellow
warblers
1 indigo
bunting
1 Savannah Huber
St.
Laurel Hill - 3:30pm-4:45pm 24
species
1 great
egret
3 black-crowned night
herons
12 semipalmated
plovers
8
killdeer
1 spotted
sandpiper
1 lesser
yellowlegs
about 100 semipalmated
sandpipers
1 least
sandpiper
4 laughing
gulls
Schmidt's Woods - 5pm-5:50pm 15
species
1 Yellow-billed
Cuckoo
5 Downy
Woodpeckers
5 Northern
Flickers
5 Barn
Swallows
1 Tufted
Titmouse
1 Carolina
1 juvenile Baltimore
Oriole
Mill Creek Point - 6pm-6:30pm 18
species
1 great
egret
4 snowy
egret
4 spotted
sandpiper
1 semipalmated
sandpiper
1 least sandpiper (there was more
peeps along the shore, but I was facing into the sun and couldn't make a
positive id)
6 forster's
terns
3 barn
swallows
6 marsh
wren
5 yellow
warblers
Pectoral Sandpiper
:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14485831@N04/2743142900/
What the sandpipers do at high tide :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14485831@N04/2743143098/
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