Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, June 8th, 2012

Good start to the walk with a singing Blue Grosbeak in the scope at the parking lot. Several families of American Oystercatchers were on the beach as well as a Piping Plover and numerous Least Terns. An added bonus were 3 Brown Pelicans flying by. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Warren Cairo, and Catherine Busch.
44 species

Canada Goose  40
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  3
Mallard  10
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Brown Pelican  3
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Osprey  1
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  6
American Oystercatcher  8
Willet  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Laughing Gull  30
Herring Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Least Tern  50
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  10
Black Skimmer  15
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  2
Eastern Kingbird  1
Fish Crow  3
Purple Martin  8
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  4
Cedar Waxwing  4
Common Yellowthroat  4
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  2

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

Black-crowned Night-Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens]

 

Willet [Photo by Karl Lukens]