Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, August 10th, 2012

Many shorebirds to study and analyze, including Semipalmated Sandpiper and Plover, Least, Pectoral, and one Western Sandpiper, Sanderling and Ruddy Turnstone. We also had both Yellowlegs and one Willet. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy & Roger Horn, and Chuck Slugg.
52 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  6
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  20
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Osprey  1
Semipalmated Plover  20
Killdeer  5
American Oystercatcher  8
Spotted Sandpiper  4
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Sanderling  50
Semipalmated Sandpiper  20
Western Sandpiper  1
Least Sandpiper  25
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Stilt Sandpiper  3
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Least Tern  20
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  18
Royal Tern  10
Black Skimmer  4
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue Jay  1
Fish Crow  3
Purple Martin  8
Barn Swallow  10
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  30
Northern Waterthrush  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Orchard Oriole  1
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  10

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Juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]