Photo
Study Of Some Birds At E.B. Forsythe NWR (Brigantine), June 21st, 2010
Bright
sunshine for a few hours yesterday, with the right tides, gave us some
very
good photographs of several birds. An American Oystercatcher,
four different Black-crowned Night Herons, three Clapper Rails, two Glossy Ibises,
four showy Black Skimmers and a
courtship and/or staging
flight by sixteen Willets (unfortunately into the sun) filled up a
couple
of memory cards.
American
Oystercatcher
Black-crowned
Night Heron Catches An Eel
Clapper
Rail Preens
Snowy
Egret Flies Across Pool
Black
Skimmer
A
Very Wet Glossy Ibis
And,
of course,
the ever-present, very nasty, Salt Marsh Greenhead Fly (Tabanus
nigrovittatus)
which I was hoping would bite
the dust on my car window before it had a chance to bite me!
Species seen were:
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Double-crested Cormorant |
Peregrine Falcon |
Tree Swallow |
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Great Blue Heron |
Clapper Rail |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
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Great Egret |
American Oystercatcher |
American Crow |
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Snowy Egret |
Willet |
Fish Crow |
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Black-crowned Night Heron |
Laughing Gull |
American Robin |
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Mute Swan |
Herring Gull |
Gray Catbird |
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Canada Goose |
Great Black-backed Gull |
Northern Mockingbird |
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American Black Duck |
Common Tern |
European Starling |
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Mallard |
Forster's Tern |
Common Yellowthroat |
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Turkey Vulture |
Black Skimmer |
Indigo Bunting |
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Osprey |
Eastern Kingbird |
Song Sparrow |
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Bald Eagle |
Purple Martin |
Red-winged Blackbird |
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Glossy Ibis |
Cedar Waxwing |
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Revised June 24th, 2010
©
Howard B. Eskin 2010 
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