Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, September 29th 2011

The Bird Walk for All People saw a variety of raptors including perched Red-shouldered Hawk, American Kestrel, Merlin, and Osprey.  A Peregrine swooped by close to our heads.  The beach had four varieties of terns and four varieties of gulls that we sorted through and compared.
41 species

Canada Goose  30
Mute Swan  20
Gadwall  4
Mallard  15
Northern Shoveler  5
Common Loon  4
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2000     Moving along shoreline in large skeins of
150-200 birds
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  1
Osprey  2
Bald Eagle  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  5
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
American Kestrel  6
Merlin  2
Peregrine Falcon  2
Sanderling  34
Laughing Gull  60
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull  12
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  80
Caspian Tern  7
Common Tern  7
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  6
Rock Pigeon  8
Mourning Dove  3
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  3
Blue Jay  4     heard
American Crow  3
Carolina Chickadee  6
Carolina Wren  8     heard
Gray Catbird  5
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  12
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Goldfinch  15

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