Observation date: 6/6/11
Notes: CMBO Birding the Meadows -KL,WC,MH&NW,CB,+23.Clear,68°,WNW5. Good looks at the waders as well as the American Oystercatchers and Piping Plovers with chicks. Lots of nesting Least Terns and we did see a Fish Crow steal an egg as it was bombarded by the terns. Highlights were a brief glimse of a scurrying Virginia Rail and a preening Roseate Tern before it took off and left.
Number of species: 52
Canada Goose 35
Mute Swan 10
Gadwall 6
Mallard 25
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 2
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 7
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 15
Osprey 2
Virginia Rail 1
Piping Plover 4
Killdeer 4
American Oystercatcher 7
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 25
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Least Tern 75
Roseate Tern 1
Forster's Tern 10
Black Skimmer 4
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 15
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 fly-by
Chimney Swift 3
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 10
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Purple Martin 4
Tree Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 4
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 5
Common Yellowthroat 5
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 1
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 25
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 1 fly-by
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5
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There's definitely some red coming on the young oystercatcher's bill now!
Fish Crow at The Meadows - public enemy number one at the moment...
