Near the Seawall, amongst the wax myrtle and mulberry bushes, you might see:
-Migrating songbirds
-Starlings
-Grackles
-Flycatchers
-Swallows
In the short vegetated areas of wetlands along the lagoon, there are often waders such as:
-Great Egret and Snowy Egret
-Great Blue, TriColor, Reddish, Yellow-crowned Night Herons
-Ibis
-Clapper, Sora rails
-Yellow Leg, Willet sandpipers
-Gull-bulled Tern
Aerial fishers that sometimes hunt in the lagoon include:
-Least and Forsters Terns
-American Skimmers
-Brown Pelicans
-Belted Kingfisher
-Osprey
And aquatic fishers also use the lagoon:
-Laughing, Ring-billed and Herring Gulls
-Neotropic and double crested cormorants
-Mergansers
-Grebes
Birds that pick and probe along the sandy edge of the lagoon and ship channel:
-Western, Least, Sandpipers
-Marbled Godwits
-Curleys
-Black-bellied, Wilsons' and Killdeer Plovers
At different times of the year, the grassy upland areas above the lagoon have been known to host:
-Eastern Meadow-larks
-Sparrows
-Wrens
-White-tailed Kites
-Northern Harrier
-Red-tailed and Coopers Hawks
-Redwinged Blackbirds
-American, Least and Green Bitterns
-Barn Owls
The grassy knolls along the beach are favored by:
-Least Tens
-American Skimmers
On the wave swash edges there are sometimes:
-Piping and Semipalmated Plovers
-Sanderling Peeps
Covering the sandbars, there are often large flocks of:
-Gulls
-Terns
-Pelicans
-Cormorants
and rareties like the following have been spotted:
-Elegant Tern
-Glaucous Gull
-Eider Duck
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Different regions of the East End Lagoon (click to expand)