Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Good variety of shorebirds but numbers were low. The beach had at least 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, many Sanderling, American Oystercatchers, and 1 Piping Plover. Up to 13 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were seen flying about. We started and ended with a perched, singing Blue Grosbeak. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Dave Lord, Catherine Busch, Mike Hannisian, and Nancy Watson.
63 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  5
Mallard  20
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  8
Snowy Egret  2
Glossy Ibis  2
Osprey  3
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Semipalmated Plover  4
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  8
American Oystercatcher  7
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  7
Sanderling  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Least Sandpiper  15
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Short-billed Dowitcher  6
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  12
Least Tern  50
Caspian Tern  1
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  3
Black Skimmer  8
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  13
Belted Kingfisher  1
Eastern Kingbird  3
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  15
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  5
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  15
Common Yellowthroat  5
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  4
Blue Grosbeak  1
Bobolink  1
Red-winged Blackbird  8
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Orchard Oriole  4
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  5

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

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull  [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull  [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Yellowlegs  [Photo by Karl Lukens]