Field Trip Reports: Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne

A brisk day with the sky full of Tree Swallows, as well as some Sharp-shinned, Cooper's, Broad-winged Hawks, and Ospreys. Several Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach. Highlights were fly-over Eastern Meadowlark and American Pipit, a scope view of Sora and Common Gallinule, and finally a soaring juvenile light morph Swainson's Hawk. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Catherine Busch, Janet Crawford, and Karen Johnson.
68 species

Brant 3
Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 8
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 30
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 10
Northern Shoveler 5
Northern Pintail 7
Green-winged Teal 10
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 2
Double-crested Cormorant 11
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 8
Osprey 5
Sharp-shinned Hawk 6
Cooper's Hawk 2
Bald Eagle 4
Broad-winged Hawk 25
Swainson's Hawk 1
Virginia Rail 1 heard by a few
Sora 1
Common Gallinule 1
Black-bellied Plover 1 fly by
Sanderling 25
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Forster's Tern 5
Royal Tern 2
Parasitic Jaeger 1 distant seen by a few
Rock Pigeon 4
Mourning Dove 15
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 10
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 4000
Barn Swallow 2 seen by a few
Carolina Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 15
American Pipit 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Palm Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 30
Savannah Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
American Goldfinch 15
House Sparrow 3

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