Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 16th, 2012

Numerous shorebirds flying over and feeding including Short-billed Dowitchers, both Yellowlegs, Least, Spotted, Stilt, and Pectoral Sandpipers. Six Orchard Oriole fly-bys and 8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the beach. Also lots of juvenile Least Terns on the beach. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & MJ Slugg, Dave Lord, Catherine Busch, and Carrie Bell.
56 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  15
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  3
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  10
American Oystercatcher  4
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Willet  1     seen by one person
Lesser Yellowlegs  18
Sanderling  4
Least Sandpiper  25
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Stilt Sandpiper  6
Short-billed Dowitcher  25
Laughing Gull  20
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  8
Lesser Black-backed Gull  8
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  50     lots of juv.
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  5
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  4
Eastern Kingbird  3
Fish Crow  5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  5
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  5
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Bobolink  1     heard by leader
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  6
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  10

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

Juvenile Eastern Kingbird [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Pectoral Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]