Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, October 22nd, 2012

There was a big movement of all kinds of birds flying overhead, including American Robins, Red-winged Blackbirds, Cedar Waxwings, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Raptors were also present with several Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, Northern Harriers, and a Bald Eagle. On the beach we had the usual gulls as well as a Lesser Black-backed Gull with Royal Terns and Northern Gannets offshore. We finished with an elusive Sora and Virginia Rail at the street end of the east path. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Catherine Busch, and Janet Crawford.
66 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  7
Wood Duck  39
Gadwall  1
American Wigeon  1
Mallard  20
Northern Shoveler  1
Green-winged Teal  10
scoter sp.  30
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Northern Gannet  25
Double-crested Cormorant  100
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  1
Black Vulture  6
Turkey Vulture  14
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  5
Sharp-shinned Hawk  5
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  1
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Sanderling  30
Laughing Gull  3
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  10
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  8
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  5
American Kestrel  5
Merlin  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  8
Tree Swallow  30
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  3000
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  50
Cedar Waxwing  25
Yellow-rumped Warbler  100
Savannah Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  8
Dark-eyed Junco  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  100
Eastern Meadowlark  6
Rusty Blackbird  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  15
Purple Finch  1
House Finch  3
Pine Siskin  5
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  5

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