Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, September 22nd 2011

The Bird Walk for All People was lucky with the weather this morning; the rain stopped just before starting time.  Assorted gulls and terns continue on the beach making it easy to study and separate the species.  Parasitic Jaegers could be seen in the rips chasing terns.  Sharp-shinned Hawks were plentiful overhead with a Cooper's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, and Osprey thrown in. A Red-throated Loon flying along the shore was a surprise.
48 species

Canada Goose  45
Mute Swan  20
Gadwall  3
Mallard  10
Blue-winged Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  3
Red-throated Loon  1     flying along shoreline past plover ponds

Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  5
Green Heron  3
Osprey  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  18
Cooper's Hawk  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Merlin  1
Laughing Gull  45
Ring-billed Gull  12
Herring Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  70
Common Tern  100
Forster's Tern  50
Royal Tern  9
Black Skimmer  2
Parasitic Jaeger  2
Rock Pigeon  25
Eurasian Collared-Dove  1     on roof of pavillion next to Hawkwatch platform

Mourning Dove  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  5
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  5     heard
American Crow  3
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  7
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  6     heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Gray Catbird  7
Northern Mockingbird  4
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler  12
Palm Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  2     heard
Bobolink  7     heard flying overhead
American Goldfinch  4     heard

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)