Field Trip Reports: Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne

A nice day with a number of birds including Great and Snowy Egrets, and Glossy Ibis, Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, both yellowlegs, and Short-billed Dowitchers. These birds were both feeding and fly-overs. On the beach we had two families of American Oystercatchers with one and two chicks, at least six Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and six Royal Terns. We also had singing Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, and Common Yellowthroat. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, Mary Watkins, Carrie Bell, and Mike Hannisian.
55 species

Canada Goose 100
Mute Swan 10
Mallard 50
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 4
Glossy Ibis 6
Osprey 4
American Oystercatcher 8 chicks 1 young, 2 older.
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Willet 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 50
Least Sandpiper 25
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Short-billed Dowitcher 8 3 feeding, 5 fly-over
Laughing Gull 60
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Least Tern 25 2 chicks
Common Tern 1
Forster's Tern 10
Royal Tern 6
Black Skimmer 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 8
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
American Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 8
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 8
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 10
Common Yellowthroat 6
Song Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 5

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