EZ Birding - Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Highlights include American Oystercatchers on nest; Piping Plover feeding at edge of Plover Pond; good looks at both Forster's and Common Terns; great looks at bat-like flight of Chimney Swifts; Pied-billed Grebe on Lighthouse Pond East; and several Osprey. Leader: Chuck Slugg.
54 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  10
Gadwall  4
Mallard  12
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  7
Great Egret  8
Snowy Egret  4
Glossy Ibis  6
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  4
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  2
American Oystercatcher  4
Wilson's Snipe  1
Laughing Gull  10
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  8
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  24
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  4
Downy Woodpecker  1     heard only
Eastern Kingbird  1     heard only
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  10
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  20
Purple Martin  50
Tree Swallow  16
Barn Swallow  6
Carolina Chickadee  4
House Wren  2
Carolina Wren  6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1     heard only
American Robin  8
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  6
Common Yellowthroat  5
Yellow Warbler  2
Pine Warbler  1     heard only
Yellow-rumped Warbler  6
Eastern Towhee  3     heard only
Song Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  2     heard only
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  8
House Finch  2     heard only
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  4

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