Birder Ray Duffy went to four sites in Secaucus on Thursday — Mill Creek Marsh, Schmidt’s Woods, Laurel Hill County Park and Mill Creek Point.
Ray reports: " I found a pectoral sandpiper this afternoon at Mill Creek Marsh, my first for Hudson County. I also saw an indigo bunting.
While crossing town to visit Schmidt’s Woods, I stopped at the Huber Street
"I found four laughing gulls at Laurel Hill County Park with a large flock of seagulls hanging out near the river behind the new Xchange development.
"I found a yellow-billed cuckoo at Schmidt’s Woods."
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Mill Creek Marsh – 1pm-2pm 23 species. High tide
1 great blue heron
4 great egret
3 snowy egrets
4 semipalmated plover
8 greater yellowlegs
4 lesser yellowlegs
200 semipalmated sandpiper
1 pectoral sandpiper
6 forster’s terns
2 marsh wrens
5 yellow warblers
1 indigo bunting
1
Savannah
Sparrow (spotted around 4:55 at the
Huber St.
platform)
Laurel Hill – 3:30pm-4:45pm 24 species
1 great egret
3 black-crowned night herons
12 semipalmated plovers
8 killdeer
1 spotted sandpiper
1 lesser yellowlegs
about 100 semipalmated sandpipers
1 least sandpiper
4 laughing gulls
Schmidt’s Woods – 5pm-5:50pm 15 species
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
5 Downy Woodpeckers
5 Northern Flickers
5 Barn Swallows
1 Tufted Titmouse
1
Carolina
Wren
1 juvenile Baltimore Oriole
Mill Creek Point – 6pm-6:30pm 18 species
1 great egret
4 snowy egret
4 spotted sandpiper
1 semipalmated sandpiper
1 least sandpiper (there was more peeps along the shore, but I was facing into the sun and couldn’t make a positive id)
6 forster’s terns
3 barn swallows
6 marsh wren
5 yellow warblers
Pectoral Sandpiper :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14485831@N04/2743142900/
What the sandpipers do at high tide :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14485831@N04/2743143098/