Salem County, March 31, 2016

Fourteen ML Birders and two guests visited the open farmlands, tidal marshes and Delaware Bayshore of Salem County on a warm, partly sunny and very blustery day. We recorded 34 species that included a Sandhill Crane, a Bald Eagle sitting in a huge nest and large numbers of American Coot.

Participants: Joe Costanza, Earl and Sandy Evens, Dino and Peggy Fiabane, Marie Gleason, Robert Koch, Carol Neil, David and Miriam Swartz, Marilyn Tillman, and Ro Wilson. Guests: Loretta Kamieniecki and Mike Zickler.

Field trip participants
Field trip participants

Bird List:

Pied-billed Grebe
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Wood Duck
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
American Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Northern Harrier
Kestrel
Osprey
Wild Turkey
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Common Yellow-throat
Red-winged Blackbird
Chipping Sparrow