Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, April 18th, 2016

A nice day for birding with several Yellow Palm Warblers joining the ever present Yellow-rumped Warblers. American Oystercatchers were on the beach and numerous Northern Gannets off shore. A nice sighting was one, then two, Bald Eagles chasing an Osprey with a fish. FOY for many was a Green Heron and an odd sighting for the Meadows was a Hermit Thrush near the east path bridge. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Pat Perkins, and Barb Bassett.
53 species

Brant  2
Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  3
Gadwall  6
Mallard  10
Blue-winged Teal  2
Northern Shoveler  2
Green-winged Teal  4
Ring-necked Duck  2
Bufflehead  2
Red-throated Loon  2
Common Loon  1
Northern Gannet  25
Double-crested Cormorant  250
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  9
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  15
Northern Harrier  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
American Coot  3
American Oystercatcher  7
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Wilson's Snipe  3
Bonaparte's Gull  5
Laughing Gull  3
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Forster's Tern  3
Mourning Dove  5
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  5
Tree Swallow  10
Marsh Wren   1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
Palm Warbler  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler  8
Chipping Sparrow  1
Field Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
House Finch  1
House Sparrow  2

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

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Green Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens]