Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, June 4th, 2012

Good looks at sitting terns including 2 Caspian (seen copulating), Forster's, Common, and Least plus 5 Royals flying over. Both Piping Plover and American Oystercatcher chicks on the beach. Small group of sandpipers included one White-rumped Sandpiper. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Warren Cairo, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, David Lord, and Tom Baxter.
56 species

Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  5
Mallard  10
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  5
Green Heron  5
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Turkey Vulture  15
Osprey  4
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Piping Plover  3
Killdeer  2
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Willet  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Least Sandpiper  8
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Least Tern  50
Caspian Tern  2     copulating
Common Tern  6
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  15
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  5
Eastern Kingbird  2
Blue Jay  1
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  3
Tree Swallow  5
Barn Swallow  3
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  8
Cedar Waxwing  3
Common Yellowthroat  4
Yellow-breasted Chat  1     distant heard by a few
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  6
House Sparrow  4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Snowy Egret [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Caspian Terns & Black Skimmer [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Blue Grosbeak [Photo by Karl Lukens]