Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, November 19th, 2012

Cold and breezy with good waterfowl and gulls. Overhead the swallows were numerous and predominantly Cave Swallows. On the beach we saw 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and several Northern Gannet off shore. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, and Janet Crawford.
53 species

Brant  25
Cackling Goose  2
Canada Goose  80
Mute Swan  4
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  8
Mallard  60
Blue-winged Teal  1
Northern Shoveler  10
Northern Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  10
Lesser Scaup  3
Bufflehead  3
Red-breasted Merganser  3
Ruddy Duck  50
Red-throated Loon  4
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Northern Gannet  4
Double-crested Cormorant  60
Great Blue Heron  2
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  8
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  25
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  35
Dunlin  1
Ring-billed Gull  15
Herring Gull  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  300
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  5
American Crow  10
Tree Swallow  25
Barn Swallow  5
Cave Swallow  50
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  4
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
American Pipit  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  10
Savannah Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Brown-headed Cowbird  25
House Finch  5
American Goldfinch  8
House Sparrow  5

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

Cackling Goose (right) [Photo by Karl Lukens]