The parking lot continues to offer good birding with views of Green Herons, Glossy Ibis, Mallards, and Black Ducks flying overhead along with Purple Martins, Tree Swallows, Common Grackles, Mockingbirds, and an Osprey carrying a fish. A Yellow-breasted Chat called continuously. The ponds and mudflats yielded a variety of shorebirds. The highlight of the walk was a Roseate Tern. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, and Deb Payson.
60 species
Canada Goose 23
Mute Swan 8
Gadwall 7
American Wigeon 1 West trail at Meadows; drake in breeding plumage
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 10
Black Scoter 8
Bufflehead 1 Vernal pond next to dune at Meadows; hen
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 5
Glossy Ibis 6
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 9
American Oystercatcher 7
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 3
Greater Yellowlegs 1 heard only
Willet 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 1 heard only
Dunlin 2
Least Sandpiper 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 25
Short-billed Dowitcher 14
Laughing Gull 18
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Least Tern 18
Roseate Tern 1
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 12
Black Skimmer 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 7
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 6
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 4
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 4
Cedar Waxwing 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 heard only
Eastern Towhee 1 heard only
Field Sparrow 1 heard only
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 14
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 3 heard only
American Goldfinch 4 heard only
House Sparrow 5
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