Heislerville - Monday April 25th 2011

Location:     Heislerville WMA - 2 Main Impoundments
Observation date:     4/25/11
Notes:     CMBO walk at Heislerville. Leaders Pete Dunne, Janet Crawford, Chuck and Mary Jane Slugg, Nancy Watson. Best bird of the walk was a flying Whimbrel. Also had a Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin coming in low overhead, two breeding-plumaged Horned Grebes, a Green Heron and several Black-bellied Plovers in breeding plumage.
Number of species:     38

Canada Goose     16
Mute Swan     5
American Black Duck     6
Lesser Scaup     6
Red-breasted Merganser     4
Horned Grebe     2
Double-crested Cormorant     32
Great Blue Heron     2
Great Egret     60
Snowy Egret     60
Green Heron     1
Black-crowned Night-Heron     51
Black Vulture     2
Turkey Vulture     4
Osprey     6
Bald Eagle     5
Black-bellied Plover     22
Semipalmated Plover     15
Killdeer     1
Greater Yellowlegs     36
Lesser Yellowlegs     1
Whimbrel     1
Ruddy Turnstone     1
Least Sandpiper     3
Dunlin     2000
Short-billed Dowitcher     250
Laughing Gull     11
Ring-billed Gull     7
American Herring Gull     12
Great Black-backed Gull     8
Forster's Tern     32
Barn Swallow     12
Marsh Wren     1
European Starling     9
Eastern Towhee     1
Red-winged Blackbird     14
Common Grackle     4
House Sparrow     2

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