Another lovely evening for a walk in The Meadows. Before we left the parking lot we had a Bald Eagle, a Merlin eating a dragonfly, and an American Kestrel. As we started on the trail, two Merlins burst through the shrubs flushing a group of House Sparrows. On the mudflats we had a mixture of sandpipers including Solitary, Least, and Semipalmated along with Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, and Lesser Yellowlegs. A variety of ducks have come in including Blue- and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, Black Duck, and Gadwall. We had a single Black-bellied Plover on the beach which was still in almost breeding plumage with some Sanderlings.
48 species
Canada Goose 18
Mute Swan 12
Gadwall 14
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 9
Northern Shoveler 12
Green-winged Teal 1
Great Egret 34
Snowy Egret 6
Green Heron 2 heard only
Glossy Ibis 6
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
American Oystercatcher 5
Black-bellied Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Sanderling 5
Least Sandpiper 16
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Laughing Gull 12
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 65
Caspian Tern 2
Royal Tern 4
Black Skimmer 40
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 6
Mourning Dove 18
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 5
Fish Crow 7
Tree Swallow 8
Gray Catbird 1 heard only
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 6
House Sparrow 16
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