Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, August 31st, 2012

Only a few shore birds were seen due to high water levels. Ducks, however, are coming back with both Blue - and Green- winged Teal present. Ruddy Turnstones and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach as well as a fly-by Brown Pelican. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg.
40 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  6
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  10
Green-winged Teal  5
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Brown Pelican  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
American Oystercatcher  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Sanderling  25
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Least Sandpiper  5
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  2
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  5
Common Tern  10
Forster's Tern  2
Black Skimmer  50
Mourning Dove  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5
American Crow  2
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Chickadee  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Prairie Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  5
House Sparrow  10

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