Field Trip Reports: Sunset Birding at the Meadows

A nice evening and good birding. Lots of shorebirds to the east of the east path, where there were many Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers as well as Semipalmated Plover, and both Yellowlegs. In addition there were 2 Pectoral and 2 White-rumped Sandpipers in the mix. Lots of terns, gulls, and Black Skimmers on the beach and several Lesser Black-backed Gulls with the usual gulls. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Kathy & Roger Horn, and Jesse Amesbury.
48 species

Canada Goose 50
Mute Swan 8
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 25
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 20
Green Heron 2
Glossy Ibis 18
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
Semipalmated Plover 35
American Oystercatcher 8
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 50
Semipalmated Sandpiper 60
Least Sandpiper 60
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 4
Laughing Gull 35
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 75
Least Tern 5
Common Tern 100
Forster's Tern 20
Royal Tern 35
Black Skimmer 230
Mourning Dove 30
Chimney Swift 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Eastern Kingbird 4
Fish Crow 2
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 10
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 5
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 2

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