Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, August 27th, 2012

High water due to heavy rains left little room for shorebirds, but there were still a few, including Semipalmated and Pectoral Sandpiper, and Lesser Yellowlegs. The first large group of Green-winged Teal of the season were feeding along with the shorebirds. The beach held 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 9 American Oystercatchers, Ruddy Turnstone, and numerous Sanderling. Least Terns were conspicuously absent. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Warren Cairo, Janet Crawford, and Catherine Busch.
50 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  25
Green-winged Teal  20
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  10
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  2
Osprey  3
Semipalmated Plover  1
American Oystercatcher  9
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  50
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Laughing Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  40
Common Tern  2
Royal Tern  10
Black Skimmer  75
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  6
Belted Kingfisher  1
Eastern Kingbird  30
American Crow  2
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  50
Barn Swallow  20
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  5
Northern Waterthrush  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  6
Red-winged Blackbird  10
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  8

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

Bobolink [Photo by Karl Lukens]