Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 30th, 2012

Some scattered waders and shorebirds including Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, many fly-over and feeding Glossy Ibis, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Plover, and both Yellowlegs. Five Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the beach. Also swarms of Tree Swallows and 2 Bank Swallows as well as Northern Rough-winged, Barn, and Purple Martin. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, Catherine Busch, Carrie Bell, Janet Crawford, and Dave Lord.
59 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  12
Mallard  35
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  5
Glossy Ibis  57
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  2
Semipalmated Plover  10
Killdeer  12
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1     heard
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  8
Sanderling  50
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Least Sandpiper  15
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  7
Laughing Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Least Tern  50
Common Tern  8
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  1
Black Skimmer  1
Rock Pigeon  5
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Eastern Kingbird  4
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  4
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  200
Bank Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  10
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  15
Cedar Waxwing  5
Common Yellowthroat  3
Yellow Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  4
Blue Grosbeak  2
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  5
Orchard Oriole  2
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  10

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

American Oystercatchers [Photo by Karl Lukens]