A beautiful evening and good birding for the small group who did the walk. Highlights include: adult Willets and a juvenile Willet takes a short flight (maybe its first!); Least Sandpipers; Short-billed Dowitchers; Green Heron; huge number of molting Mallards; and a Lesser Black-backed Gull off the beach. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy Horn, and Michael McCabe.
46 species
Canada Goose 34
Mute Swan 8
Mallard 87
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 7
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 6
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Oystercatcher 19
Killdeer 4
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 10
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Least Sandpiper 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 12
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 55
Least Tern 20
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 43
Black Skimmer 7
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 5
Eastern Kingbird 1 heard
Fish Crow 3
Purple Martin 12
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 7
Carolina Wren 3 heard
American Robin 4
European Starling 4
Common Yellowthroat 2 heard
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Sparrow 4
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