Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, September 28th, 2012

Good numbers of ducks and waders including both Teal, Northern Pintail, both Egrets and Green Heron. The beach held 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and 4 Merlin and 2 Peregrine were overhead. Highlight was 2 Sora seen briefly wandering in the weed edges. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, and Roger Horn.
37 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  3
Mallard  30
Blue-winged Teal  15
Northern Shoveler  8
Northern Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  15
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Sora  2     Seen by some briefly
American Oystercatcher  3
Sanderling  25
Laughing Gull  30
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  25
Forster's Tern  15
Black Skimmer  300
Mourning Dove  5
Merlin  4
Peregrine Falcon  2
Blue Jay  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  30
Common Yellowthroat  4
Palm Warbler  2
Savannah Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
House Sparrow  1

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