Hawks, Trails and Beach - Saturday, September 10th 2011

The Hawks, Trails and Beach walk had an amazing number of American Kestrels, six perched in one tree and many flying around with dragonflies in their talons.  The usual assortment of gulls and terns on the beach rounded out the walk.
44 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  21
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  3
Northern Shoveler  3
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  1
Osprey  8
Bald Eagle  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
American Kestrel  15
Merlin  2
American Oystercatcher  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1     heard only
Sanderling  12
Laughing Gull  75
Herring Gull  15
Great Black-backed Gull  115
Common Tern  25
Forster's Tern  10
Royal Tern  6
Black Skimmer  130
Rock Pigeon  6
Mourning Dove  3
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  12
White-eyed Vireo  1     heard only
Red-eyed Vireo  3
American Crow  10
Fish Crow  1     heard only
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  6
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  12
European Starling  6
Mourning Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  3
Yellow Warbler  2
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  18
American Goldfinch  2

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