Mike Britt posted the following bird report on Jersey Birds a short while ago — with highlights including 15,000 Semipalmated Sandpipers, a Blue Grosbeak (along Disposal Road).

Full list follows. (Thanks, Mike!)

DeKorte/Berry's Creek, Bergen, US-NJ
Aug 5, 2012 7:05 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling5.0 mile(s)
Comments:     With Dave Blinder.
38 species

Canada Goose  12

American Black Duck  2

Mallard  50

Ruddy Duck  1

Double-crested Cormorant  50

Great Blue Heron  15

Great Egret  21

Snowy Egret  15

Black-crowned Night-Heron  3

Osprey  1

Northern Harrier  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

American Kestrel  4

Semipalmated Plover  11

Killdeer  3

Spotted Sandpiper  6

Greater Yellowlegs  14

Lesser Yellowlegs  50

Semipalmated Sandpiper  15000     huge number probably a result of peak period for migration coupled with the fact that low tide nearly coincided with sunrise

Least Sandpiper  1

Short-billed Dowitcher  35

Laughing Gull  3

Herring Gull  100

Great Black-backed Gull  3

Forster's Tern  20

Mourning Dove  12

Northern Flicker  1

Barn Swallow  20

American Robin  1

Gray Catbird  1

Northern Mockingbird  1

European Starling  1

Yellow Warbler  12

Song Sparrow  10

Blue Grosbeak  1     1st summer male on Kingsland landfill; perched in small tree and on several different weed stalks

Red-winged Blackbird  10

American Goldfinch  3

House Sparrow  2

 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)