Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, November 18th, 2013

A nice variety of ducks on the ponds including Gadwall, Mallard, Black Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, and Ruddy Duck with many scoters off shore. With the scoters were a good number of Northern Gannets and two Parasitic Jaegers. Other birds of interest were two Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the beach, at least 30 fly-by Forster's Terns and a fly-over American Bittern. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, Carrie Bell, and Kathy Horn.
53 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  200
Mute Swan  5
Gadwall  50
American Wigeon  15
American Black Duck  8
Mallard  40
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)  1
Northern Shoveler  20
Northern Pintail  15
Green-winged Teal  15
Greater Scaup  1
Surf Scoter  10
Black Scoter  100
scoter sp.  200
Bufflehead  10
Hooded Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  20
Red-throated Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Northern Gannet  40
Double-crested Cormorant  10
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  3
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  15
Killdeer  1
Parasitic Jaeger  2
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  30
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  100
Forster's Tern  30
Royal Tern  1
Rock Pigeon  2
Mourning Dove  10
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  15
American Robin  30
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  30
American Pipit  10
Cedar Waxwing  10
Yellow-rumped Warbler  3
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  500
Common Grackle  100
Brown-headed Cowbird  20
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  15
House Sparrow  2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Greater Scaup [Photo by Karl Lukens]