Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Highlights of the Bird Walk for All People included Piping Plover, American Oystercatchers with a fledged chick, Least Terns with chicks, and a Spotted Sandpiper. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Warren Cairo, and Chris Marks.
53 species

Canada Goose  45
Mute Swan  7
Mallard  20
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  3
Glossy Ibis  5
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  6
Mississippi Kite  1     soaring towards the Meadows
Merlin  1     by Plover Pond flying west being chased by Red-winged Blackbirds
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  12
American Oystercatcher  3
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Least Sandpiper  16
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  7
Great Black-backed Gull  5
Least Tern  30
Common Tern  8
Forster's Tern  30
Black Skimmer  5
Rock Pigeon  5
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  4
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Phoebe  1     heard
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  8
American Crow  4     heard
Purple Martin  40
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  5
House Wren  3
American Robin  12
Gray Catbird  1     heard
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  12
Cedar Waxwing  5
Common Yellowthroat  6     heard
Song Sparrow  2
Scarlet Tanager  1     seen by leader only
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  4
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
Orchard Oriole  1     first year male seen by leader only
House Sparrow  6

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