Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 9th, 2012

Lots of waders and shorebirds flying over and feeding. A Great Egret, juvenile Snowy Egret, and juvenile Little Blue Heron were feeding close to each other providing a good comparison of the 3 white birds for all to see. Interesting birds were a couple of fly-over Bobolinks, numerous Yellowlegs, a Solitary Sandpiper and a returning Sanderling. Several Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach.  Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, Catherine Busch, and Janet Crawford.
64 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  8
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  25
Double-crested Cormorant  1     seen by leader only
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  4
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  15
Osprey  1
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  15
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  8
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Whimbrel  1
Sanderling  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Least Sandpiper  25
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  30
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  8
Lesser Black-backed Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Least Tern  75
Common Tern  10
Forster's Tern  20
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  5
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  8
Chimney Swift  4
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Wren  1
House Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  5
Cedar Waxwing  1
Common Yellowthroat  5
Yellow Warbler  3
Field Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1     seen by leader only
Bobolink  2
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  5

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