What to See

Things You Might See Along the Morris Island Trail

Birds

Seabirds

  • Common Tern
  • Greater Black-backed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Laughing Gull

Shorebirds

  • American Oystercatcher
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Dunlin
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Red Knot
  • Sanderling
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Willet

Birds of Prey

  • Merlin
  • Northern Harrier
  • Osprey

Perching Birds

  • American Goldfinch
  • Bank Swallow
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Eastern Towhee
  • Gray Catbird
  • Horned Lark
  • House Finch
  • Mourning Dove
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Rough-winged Swallow
  • Saltmarsh Sparrow
  • Sharp-tailed sparrow
  • Tree Swallow

Plants

Shrubs/Bushes

  • Arrowwood
  • Bayberry
  • Beach Plum
  • Blackberry
  • Blueberry
  • Chokecherry
  • Dusty Miller
  • Winged & Smooth Sumac

Flowers

  • Beach Pea
  • Blue Toadflax
  • Salt Spray Rose
  • Sea Lavender
  • Seaside Gerardia
  • Starflower
  • Striped Wintergreen

Vines

  • Honeysuckle
  • Poison Ivy

Grasses

  • Beach Grass
  • Beach Heather
  • Poverty Grass

Trees

  • Black Oak
  • Chestnut Oak
  • Juniper
  • Pitch Pine
  • Red Cedar
  • Red Oak
  • Sassafrass
  • Scrub Oak
  • White Oak

Seaweeds

  • Eel Grass
  • Green Fleece
  • Seagarassum

Arachnids/Crustacean etc

  • Bay Scallop
  • Blue Mussel
  • Green Crab
  • Horseshoe Crabs
  • Moon Snail
  • Quahog
  • Ribbed Mussel
  • Spider Crab
  • Surf Clam

Mammals

  • Chipmunk
  • Gray Squirrel
  • Gray Seal
  • Red Fox
  • White-footed Mouse
  • White-tailed Deer
  • Eastern Cottontail