Good weather except for the gnats! Highlights of the walk include: three American Oystercatcher chicks being fed mole crabs by adult; Black Skimmers skimming; Green Heron flyover; Black-crowned Night Heron perched on bridge; mixed flock of sandpipers, mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers; and a perched Red-tailed Hawk being harassed by Red-winged Blackbirds. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy and Roger Horn, Michael McCabe, and Carrie Bell.
48 species
Canada Goose 28
Mute Swan 6
Gadwall 2
Mallard 38
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 3
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 6
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Oystercatcher 10
Semipalmated Plover 4
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 4
Dunlin 4 in mixed flock of shorebirds in east pond
Least Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 160 about 50 in east pond and large group in air
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 10
Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 8
Least Tern 14
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 10
Black Skimmer 8
Mourning Dove 7
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1 heard
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 7
Tree Swallow 6
Barn Swallow 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 5
Common Yellowthroat 4 heard only
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 heard
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 12
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 1 heard
House Sparrow 3
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