Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, November 25th, 2013

Very cold and breezy. Most of the ponds were iced over. A few spots with ducks which included Mallard, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, and a couple of Ruddy, one Ring-necked, and one Bufflehead. We also had several "disgruntled" Great Blue Herons. A few of the usual gulls on the beach and one Lesser Black-backed Gull. There were a few fly-over Snow Bunting but no large feeding flock. Highlight was a brief look at a Short-eared Owl that landed in the dunes and could not be relocated. Still thawing out as this is written! Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Janet Crawford, Catherine Busch, and Mike Hanissian.
45 species

Snow Goose  1     in with Canadas
Canada Goose  500     many fly over migrating
Mute Swan  4
Gadwall  15
American Wigeon  4
American Black Duck  3
Mallard  15
Northern Shoveler  4
Northern Pintail  1
Green-winged Teal  15
Ring-necked Duck  1
Black Scoter  2
Bufflehead  1
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Ruddy Duck  2
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Blue Heron  5
Black Vulture  4
Turkey Vulture  8
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
American Coot  7
Sanderling  1
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  6
Short-eared Owl  1
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  1
American Robin  50
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  2
Snow Bunting  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  10
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  40
Common Grackle  50
House Finch  7
American Goldfinch  12
House Sparrow  5

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Ruddy Duck and American Coot huddle together in one of the few spots of open water [Photo by Karl Lukens]