Between around 1830 and 1930 this evening, we witnessed an awesome flight of Snowy Egrets at Broadkill Marsh. Over the course of the evening, we counted 800 Snowy Egrets moving south along the coast, mostly in small groups (10-30), though one loose flock numbered around 80-odd.
chlorophonia
2012-09-02 17:48
Prime Hook NWR--Broadkill Marsh
Traveling
1.37 km
127 Minutes
Observers: 2
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Overcast, calm, 80 F.
2 Blue-winged Teal
13 Northern Shoveler
19 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
800 Snowy Egret
Specie Comments: Impressive flight from approx 1830 to 1930, moving south in groups of 10, 20, 30 etc (largest group noted was 81), along coastline and over the marsh. Scrutinized as many as we could, including by scope, but surprisingly monospecific (saw one distant individual that may have been a juvenile Little Blue). Slowed to a trickle and finally dried up right as we hit 800!
17 Green Heron
1 Clapper Rail
10 Semipalmated Plover
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
3 Sanderling
265 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1 Least Sandpiper
1 White-rumped Sandpiper
140 Laughing Gull
1 Herring Gull
8 Caspian Tern
46 Forster's Tern
32 Black Skimmer
2 Mourning Dove
1 Marsh Wren
75 European Starling
2 Common Yellowthroat
2 Blue Grosbeak
473 Bobolink
3 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
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