Field Trip Reports: Sunset Birding at the Meadows

We started at the east path first and were rewarded with many shorebirds both close and scope views on the large mudflats and shallow water east of the path. These birds included Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, even a Stilt Sandpiper, lots of both Yellowlegs, Willets, Short-billed Dowitchers, Killdeer, and Semipalmated Plover. Amongst these birds were 30+ Snowy Egrets, a half dozen Great Egrets, and 6 Glossy Ibis. On the drier flats were at least 100 Terns, adults and juvenile Forster's, Common and a few Least. On the beach we had American Oystercatchers and Black Skimmers. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, and Jesse Amesbury.
51 species

Canada Goose 10
Mute Swan 8
Mallard 10
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 30
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 6
Osprey 1
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 9
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 7
Willet 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 18
Sanderling 50
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40
Least Sandpiper 70
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Laughing Gull 30
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Least Tern 8
Common Tern 15
Forster's Tern 50
Royal Tern 1
Black Skimmer 25
Mourning Dove 15
Chimney Swift 4
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 3
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 8
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 10
Common Yellowthroat 6
Song Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 3
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 3

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