Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, October 1st, 2012

Lots of raptors overhead along with many Northern Flickers and Blue Jays. A few scattered warblers with many of them Palm or Yellow-rumped. Other birds of interest were 2 Caspian Terns, a couple of perched Bobolinks, 2 small flocks of Black Scoter, and a Sora that called a couple times. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Catherine Busch, and Janet Crawford.
73 species

Canada Goose  8
Mute Swan  6
Wood Duck  1
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  4
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  12
Northern Shoveler  4
Northern Pintail  4
Green-winged Teal  15
Black Scoter  24
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  12
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  6
Snowy Egret  13
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  5
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  6
Cooper's Hawk  4
Broad-winged Hawk  5
Sora  1     heard
Killdeer  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  50
Pectoral Sandpiper  4     fly over
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  8
Herring Gull  10
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Caspian Tern  2
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  1
Royal Tern  6
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  15
Red-bellied Woodpecker  10
Northern Flicker  20
American Kestrel  5
Peregrine Falcon  1     seen by few
Eastern Phoebe  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  30
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  30
Carolina Chickadee  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  8
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  20
Common Yellowthroat  3
American Redstart  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  15
Yellow-rumped Warbler  10
Savannah Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  2
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  8
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
House Finch  5
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  5

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

Savannah Sparrows [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Scarlet Tanager [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Solitary Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]