Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 24th, 2012

Lots of flyover and perched song birds, including Yellow-rumped, and Palm Warblers, and White- and Red-eyed Vireos. "Thousands" of Tree Swallows were overhead and on the dunes as well as numerous Northern Flickers. Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach. Raptors included Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned, Cooper's and Broad-winged Hawks. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, Catherine Busch, Janet Crawford.
64 species

Canada Goose  30
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  1
American Wigeon  2
Mallard  25
Blue-winged Teal  10
Northern Shoveler  5
Northern Pintail  1
Green-winged Teal  5
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  3
Osprey  4
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Cooper's Hawk  2
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Sanderling  25
Least Sandpiper  4
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Laughing Gull  20
Ring-billed Gull  8
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  2
Black Skimmer  200     2nd ave. beach
Rock Pigeon  4
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Northern Flicker  15
American Kestrel  3
Merlin  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
White-eyed Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  1
Tree Swallow  1200
Barn Swallow  6
Carolina Wren  3     heard
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Swainson's Thrush  1
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  30
Common Yellowthroat  3
Palm Warbler  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler  4
Savannah Sparrow  5
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  12
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Common Grackle  4
House Sparrow  5

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

Bobolink [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Yellowlegs [Photo by Karl Lukens]