Shorebirds at Heislerville with Pete Dunne - Monday, April 30th, 2012

Highlights include a Green Heron, 4 Spotted Sandpipers, Black Skimmers skimming, the world's most cooperative Clapper Rail and a Merlin. Leaders Pete Dunne, Janet Crawford, Warren Cairo, and Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg.
36 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  2
American Black Duck  6
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  1
Double-crested Cormorant  90
Great Egret  40
Snowy Egret  40
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  80
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  5
Bald Eagle  1
Clapper Rail  1
Black-bellied Plover  10
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Greater Yellowlegs  30
Willet  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  20
Semipalmated Sandpiper  12
Dunlin  250
Short-billed Dowitcher  80
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Forster's Tern  30
Black Skimmer  30
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  3
European Starling  3
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  4
Boat-tailed Grackle  6
House Sparrow  3

Thompson's Beach
12 species

Canada Goose  2
Double-crested Cormorant  4
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  2
Glossy Ibis  1
Osprey  30
Merlin  1
Clapper Rail  10
Dunlin  30
Laughing Gull  6
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Boat-tailed Grackle  6

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