After dinner this evening Linda and I checked out Areas M and N to both
determine whether I can get to my nest boxes to clean them and to see if the
juvenile Ruddy Turnstone was still around. There was no sign of the Ruddy
Turnstone but the mudflats are developing rapidly at Dustin Road (Area L),  and in
the area between Area M and Area N which can be viewed from the  boardwalk. We
were there from about 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM and compiled a nice list  considering
the reason for being there wasn't specifically to bird.  There  were 5 Osprey
perched at the platform and the trees nearby, several  Red-headed Woodpeckers
at the end of Area N, shorebirds on the sand spits, 5  Great Egrets and
numerous other species. The list of species we observed  includes:

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch

Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve




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