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

Numerous singing Common Yellowthroats with one seen well. Lots of shorebirds both feeding and flying over, including 12 Stilt Sandpipers, 10 Short-billed Dowitchers, and at least one Western Sandpiper. A fly-by Peregrine Falcon and a Cooper's Hawk as well as two Caspian Terns were also seen. An unusual tern with black bill, reddish legs, white forehead, and no carpal bar, made us think  -- Common or Roseate!! Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, Pat Perkins, Barb Bassett, and Mary Watkins.
54 species

Canada Goose  75
Mute Swan  1
Mallard  30
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  4
Green Heron  3
Glossy Ibis  3
Osprey  7
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  8
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Stilt Sandpiper  12
Least Sandpiper  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Western Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  1
Caspian Tern  2
Common Tern  15     1 w/white forehead and black bill, no carpal ?? possible Roseate?
Forster's Tern  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  3
Downy Woodpecker  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  4
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  3
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  4
Common Yellowthroat  6
Prairie Warbler  1     heard
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  2
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  6
House Sparrow  5

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

Ring-billed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Common, "mystery," and Forster's Terns [Photo by Karl Lukens]