Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, June 9th, 2014

It was a cool, cloudy, breezy morning. Interesting birds were a fly-over Black-Crowned Night Heron, a pair of American Oystercatchers with three chicks, and two Black Scoters. Shorebirds were four Willets, 60 Semi-palmated Sandpipers, and seven Short-billed Dowitchers. The parking lot area again proved the place to be where we saw Indigo Bunting, Cedar Waxwing, Orchard Orioles building a nest, and heard two Yellow-breasted Chats. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, and Catherine Busch.
47 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  1
Mallard  20
Black Scoter  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Osprey  4
American Oystercatcher  8
Killdeer  1
Willet  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  60
Short-billed Dowitcher  7
Laughing Gull  15
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  10
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  20
Black Skimmer  5
Mourning Dove  5
Northern Flicker  3
Eastern Kingbird  1
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  4
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  5
Common Yellowthroat  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  2     heard
Eastern Towhee  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
Orchard Oriole  3     nest
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  5

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Eastern Towhee [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]