Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

The Walk for All People enjoyed nice weather and good birds.  Highlights include an air show by flying Black Terns over Bunker Pond as well as Common and Forster's Terns, Great and Snowy Egrets, an immature Little Blue Heron, and a Great Blue Heron.  Lots of Eastern Kingbirds, Bobolinks, and a couple of perched Blue  Grosbeaks were also hits. Leaders: Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Patty Rourke, and Catherine Busch.
54 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  7
Gadwall  6
Mallard  20
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  2
Semipalmated Plover  8
American Oystercatcher  8
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  5
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Least Sandpiper  12
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  45
Black Tern  5
Common Tern  30
Forster's Tern  26
Black Skimmer  7
Rock Pigeon  8
Mourning Dove  20
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Kingbird  25
American Crow  2
Fish Crow  6
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  12
Barn Swallow  6
Carolina Chickadee  4
Carolina Wren  5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2     heard
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  8
European Starling  6
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  5
Bobolink  14
Red-winged Blackbird  9
Common Grackle  1
American Goldfinch  6
House Sparrow  12

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