EZ Birding - Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

Rainy weather for EZ Birding didn't stop us from seeing good birds! Highlights include: American Oystercatcher feeding two chicks; Piping Plover and Semipalmated Plover next to each other at Plover Pond for good comparison opportunity; limping Short-billed Dowitcher; and Osprey fishing in Bunker Pond. Leader: Chuck Slugg.
55 species

Canada Goose  23
Mute Swan  14
Mallard  12
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  3
Green Heron  3
Glossy Ibis  4
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  5
Semipalmated Plover  5
Piping Plover  2
Killdeer  6
American Oystercatcher  8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Least Sandpiper  7
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Laughing Gull  20
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Least Tern  50
Forster's Tern  25
Black Skimmer  12
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  4
American Crow  2
Fish Crow  11
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  6
Purple Martin  55
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Chickadee  2
House Wren  3
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  4
Cedar Waxwing  2
Common Yellowthroat  8
Yellow Warbler  3
Yellow-breasted Chat  1     heard
Song Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  6
Blue Grosbeak  1     heard
Indigo Bunting  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  14
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  4     heard
Orchard Oriole  2
House Sparrow  4

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