Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, October 6th, 2014

A cool and breezy day with some good ducks such as Blue- and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, Northern Pintail, and several Black Scoters off shore. There were also lots of waders including Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, and many Snowy Egrets. Raptors included Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, Northern Harrier, as well as American Kestrel, Merlin and one Peregrine Falcon. We had a few shorebirds including five Stilt Sandpipers. Overhead, there were numerous Northern Flickers. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Mike Hannisian, Catherine Busch, Deb Payson, and Carrie Bell.
54 species

Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  5
Mallard  25
Blue-winged Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  3
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal (American)  26
Black Scoter  5
Double-crested Cormorant  100
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  12
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  6
Northern Harrier  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  2
Semipalmated Plover  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Stilt Sandpiper  5
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull (American)  25
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Forster's Tern  1
Royal Tern  12
Mourning Dove  10
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  12
American Kestrel  8
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Blue Jay  12
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  30
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  8
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  100
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler  6
Savannah Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  2
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Eastern Meadowlark  1
Common Grackle  20
House Finch  5
House Sparrow  20

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

Northern Pintail [Photo by Karl Lukens]