Birding the Meadows - Monday, May 13th, 2013

A cold and breezy morning with a perched and singing Blue Grosbeak at the parking lot. Birds of interest were 3 Piping Plover (one pair looked like nest building) and 4 Oystercatchers on the beach as well as lots of Least Terns. Other birds were several Willets, Eastern Kingbirds, an immature Bald Eagle, and a Tricolored Heron. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Warren Cairo, and Catherine Busch.
50 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  3
Mallard  15
Double-crested Cormorant  15
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Tricolored Heron  1
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  4
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  8
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1     imm.
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Semipalmated Plover  4
Piping Plover  3
American Oystercatcher  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Willet  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  5
Least Tern  25
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  20
Mourning Dove  3
Chimney Swift  5
Eastern Kingbird  3
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  3
Tree Swallow  5
Barn Swallow  10
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  5
Common Yellowthroat  6
Yellow Warbler  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
Orchard Oriole  1
House Sparrow  5

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

Piping Plover nesting [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Piping Plover courting [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Tricolored Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens]