Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, August 6th, 2015

There are still Purple Martins, many just fledged, in the parking lot with a variety other swallows mixed in. On the beach, we had many terns including Royal, Forster's, Common, and Least. On the Plover Ponds we had a white-phase Little Blue Heron along with a few Least Sandpipers and a Green Heron. As we surveyed the beach from the second crossover, we had a large group of Black Skimmers loafing on the sand with a number of young-of-the-year Least Terns and American Oystercatchers. Canada Geese also went to the beach today. As we wended our way through the woods and marsh, we had a Blue Grosbeak in the middle of the trail where everyone could get a good look. Leaders: Chuck Slugg and Chris Marks.
54 species

Canada Goose  55
Mute Swan  35
Mallard  30
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  1
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  20
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  5
American
Oystercatcher  6
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Sanderling  3
Least Sandpiper  6
Laughing Gull  35
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  9
Great Black-backed Gull  40
Least Tern  25
Caspian Tern  1
Common Tern  27
Forster's Tern  12
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  42
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  7
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue Jay  1     heard
American Crow  2
Fish Crow  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  5
Purple Martin  45
Tree Swallow  6
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Chickadee  2     heard
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  6
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  5
Cedar Waxwing  6
Common Yellowthroat  1     heard
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  1     heard
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  2
Orchard Oriole  2     heard
House Finch  5
House Sparrow  4

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