Field Triiip!!!

A windy, rainy lunch hour today - didn't think there would be many birds around, so we abandoned our plan to walk in the woods and escaped to the beach. Less than a ten-minute drive away, we stopped first at South Beach in West Haven, then made our way north-eastward, stopping along the way for coastal birds.

These birds don't count as West Campus birds, and indeed some of them would NEVER be seen in our landscaped and forested habitats.
Today's birders: Sue and Lynn


Today's birds:
Peregrine Falcon, cruising over the beach, stirred up a flock of:
Semipalmated Sandpipers and a
Black-bellied Plover
American Oystercatcher, three
Brant, a flock feeding in shallow water
Black Duck
Double-crested Cormorant
Great black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Gray Catbird
House Sparrow
European Starling
Rock Pigeon

Additional Campus birds:
Wild Turkey (Nate's sighting)

American Crow (huge flock in the courtyard-Barbara's sighting)

Blue Jay

Brown Creeper (Tom's sighting)

Monk Parakeet, more on this one another day (Tom's sighting)

15 species for our little field trip:
Falco peregrinus
Calidris pusilla
Pluvialis squatarola
Haematopus palliatus
Branta bernicla

Anas rubripes
Phalacrocorax auritus

Larus marinus

Larus argentatus

Larus delawarensis

Larus atricilla

Dumetella carolinensis

Passer domesticus

Sturnus vulgaris

Columba livia

plus the campus birds:

Meleagris gallopavo

Corvus brachyrhynchos

Cyanocitta cristata

Certhia americana

Myopsitta monachus