Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Cold and windy but still good birding. Lots of ducks including Ring-necked, Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, and Ruddy. They were all put up in the air several times when a Bald Eagle flew overhead. A flock of 11 Wilson's Snipe and another of 8 Glossy Ibis made for good viewing. The bird of the day was the Northern Gannet! There were an estimated, conservatively, 650 birds - many close to shore. Swallows were also present with Tree, Cliff, Northern Rough-winged, Barn, and Purple Martin seen. A fly-over American Bittern was an added treat. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, and Chris Marks.
61 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  7
Gadwall  8
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  15
Northern Shoveler  6
Green-winged Teal  30
Ring-necked Duck  3
Black Scoter  15
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  2
Red-throated Loon  6
Common Loon  1
Northern Gannet  650
Double-crested Cormorant  3
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Glossy Ibis  8
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  3
Bald Eagle  1
Northern Harrier  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Virginia Rail  1     heard
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  6
American Oystercatcher  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Dunlin  1
Wilson's Snipe  12
Bonaparte's Gull  10
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Forster's Tern  1
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  5
Northern Flicker  1
American Crow  5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  15
Barn Swallow  1
Cliff Swallow  2
Carolina Wren  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler  20
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  5
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Common Grackle  1
Boat-tailed Grackle  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
House Finch  1
House Sparrow  1

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