Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, July 27th, 2012

Good variety of waders and shorebirds including Spotted and Pectoral sandpipers. Numerous terns, a couple of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and lots of Sanderlings. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, and Kathy & Roger Horn.
51 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  30
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  6
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  11
Osprey  2
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  10
American Oystercatcher  6
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Sanderling  100
Semipalmated Sandpiper  8
Least Sandpiper  15
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Least Tern  75
Common Tern  40
Forster's Tern  40
Royal Tern  8
Black Skimmer  12
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Eastern Kingbird  4
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  8
Gray Catbird  5
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  20
Cedar Waxwing  3
Common Yellowthroat  3
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  1
Orchard Oriole  18
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  5

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

Black Skimmer eating a fish [Photo by Karl Lukens]

One of the 18 (!) Orchard Orioles seen on this trip [Photo by Karl Lukens]