Photo Study Of Some Birds At E.B. Forsythe NWR (Brigantine), August 8th, 2010

Mike DeBonis and I hit Brig yesterday and discovered that the migration has started.


Whimbrel Strolls On The Salt Hay
 



 
 Mike DeBonis Got The Whimbrel Flight Shots Above

 
Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron

Blue Grosbeak Chomps On A Praying Mantis

Adult and Juvenile Gull-billed Terns

Osprey Feeds Two Chicks
 

Species seen:

Double-crested Cormorant

American Kestrel

Gull-billed Tern

Great Blue Heron

Wild Turkey

Forster's Tern

Great Egret

Clapper Rail

Black Skimmer

Snowy Egret

Semipalmated Plover

Mourning Dove

Black-crowned Night-Heron

American Oystercatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Glossy Ibis

Greater Yellowlegs

Purple Martin

Mute Swan

Willet

Tree Swallow

Canada Goose

Spotted Sandpiper

Cliff Swallow

Wood Duck

Whimbrel

Barn Swallow

American Black Duck

Ruddy Turnstone

American Crow

Mallard

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Fish Crow

Turkey Vulture

Least Sandpiper

American Robin

Black Vulture

Short-billed Dowitcher

Gray Catbird

Osprey

Laughing Gull

Red-winged Blackbird

Bald Eagle

Ring-billed Gull

Brown-headed Cowbird

Red-tailed Hawk

Herring Gull

American Goldfinch

Peregrine Falcon

Great Black-backed Gull

European Starling

To see a larger image of any of  the birds below, please click on either the thumbnails or the captions...thanks!

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A-AmericanOystercatcher

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A-ClapperRail2

A-Double-crestedCormorant

A-GreaterYellowlegs

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A-LeastSandpiper

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A-SemipalmatedSandpiper

A-Short-billedDowitcher

A-SpottedSandpiper

A-Whimbrel

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A-Willet.jpg

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A-Whimbrel3

A-Willet

B-Black-belliedPlover

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B-Black-belliedPlover3

B-SemipalmatedPlover.jpg

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B-SemipalmatedPlover

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C-Black-crowned
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C-Black-crowned
Night-HeronJuvenileFlies

C-FirstSummer
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C-GlossyIbis

C-GreatBlueHeron

C-GreatEgret

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C-SnowyEgret.jpg

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D-Forster'sTern.jpg

C-GreatEgretFlies

C-SnowyEgret

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D-Gull-billedTern

D-Forster'sTern

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D-HerringGull.jpg

D-JuvenileLaughingGull.jpg

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D-Forster'sTernFlies

D--FreshJuvenileForster'sTern

D-HerringGull

D-JuvenileLaughingGull

D-LaughingGull

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E-CliffSwallow.jpg

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E-BarnSwallow

E-CliffSwallow

E-TreeSwallows

F-AmericanGoldfinch

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F-FemaleRed-wingedBlackbird.jpg

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H-OspreySoars.JPG

F-BlueGrosbeak2

F-Female
Red-wingedBlackbird

G-MuteSwanFamily

H-Osprey

H-OspreySoars

 Revised August 10, 2010

Howard B. Eskin 2010       Please email your comments to hbeskin@voicenet.com      Please click here to go back to Bird Webpage Index