Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, August 9th, 2013

Rainy, near by thunder. Abbreviated no charge walk. Went to East path for shorebirds and waders. Usual sandpipers and Yellowlegs and one Pectoral Sandpiper. Waders included Great and Snowy Egrets and a juvenile Little Blue Heron. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Kathy and Roger Horn.
37 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  25
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  8
Little Blue Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  1
Semipalmated Plover  5
American Oystercatcher  6
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Sanderling  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  25
Least Sandpiper  25
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  2
Laughing Gull  50
Herring Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  25
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  15
Black Skimmer  25
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  2
Purple Martin  10
Barn Swallow  2
European Starling  25
Cedar Waxwing  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  2
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  1

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Pectoral Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]