Field Trip Reports: Sunset Birding at the Meadows

Nice evening and great waders and shorebirds. We had Great and Little Blue Herons, Great and Snowy Egrets, as well as Glossy Ibis. Shorebirds included Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Spotted, Semipalmated, Least, and 21 Stilt Sandpipers and a couple of Short-billed Dowitchers. The beach had Black Skimmers and American Oystercatchers. Highlight was a perched Great Horned Owl for good scope views. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, and Jesse Amesbury.
49 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 8
Mute Swan 6
Mallard 15
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 5
Snowy Egret 7
Little Blue Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 7
Osprey 2
Semipalmated Plover 25
Killdeer 1
American Oystercatcher 8
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Lesser Yellowlegs 15
Sanderling 100
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Least Sandpiper 60
Stilt Sandpiper 21
Short-billed Dowitcher 2
Laughing Gull 10
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 8
Common Tern 5
Forster's Tern 25
Sterna sp. 250
Black Skimmer 25
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 10
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 2
Carolina Wren 1
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 30
Cedar Waxwing 2
Common Yellowthroat 3
Yellow Warbler 5
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 2

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