A great wlak this morning as we started off with busy parties of shorebirds heading out across the bay and several parties of Glossy Ibis completed circuits around the lighthouse. Eight Stilt Sandpipers was a nice count, while the Gadwall count remains high thanks to a couple of broods of youngsters which are still doing well.
61 species
Canada Goose 140
Mute Swan 21
Gadwall 20
Mallard 14
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 35
Osprey 1
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 6
American Oystercatcher 5
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Willet 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40
Least Sandpiper 10
Stilt Sandpiper 8
Short-billed Dowitcher 20
Laughing Gull 40
Herring Gull (American) 6
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Least Tern 50
Common Tern 10
Forster's Tern 30
Black Skimmer 7
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Fish Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Purple Martin 120
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 12
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 14
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 3
Pine Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 30
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Marvin the Muskrat was busy ferrying food to his favorite feeding spot this morning!
Least Sandpipers are back and feeding unobtrusively along the muddy margins of Bunker Pond.
Adult Lesser Yellowlegs at Bunker Pond today. It's prime time now to get to know the two yellowlegs species in adult plumage, before they get too far into their post-breeding molt. Note the lack of flank barring and the relatively delicate and straight bill of this individual.
This Snowy Egret decided it was time to shift the terns out of the way and have a bit of a clean-up on the Bunker Pond railing. [Photos by Karl Lukens]
