Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 28th, 2014

We had thirteen Glossy Ibis and a number of shorebirds in the ponds including three Semipalmated Plover, both yellowlegs, Least, Pectoral and Semipalmated Sandpiper, and lots of Short-billed Dowitchers. On the beach we had Sanderling, American Oystercatchers, a Ruddy Turnstone, and four Lesser Black-backed Gulls with the usual gulls. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Janet Crawford, Mike Hannisian, and Catherine Busch.
59 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  10
Mallard  50
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Glossy Ibis  13
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  5
American Oystercatcher  10
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  20
Least Sandpiper  8
Pectoral Sandpiper  1     fly-over
Semipalmated Sandpiper  12
Short-billed Dowitcher  30
Laughing Gull  50
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  5
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  25
Royal Tern  2
Black Skimmer  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  8
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
American Crow  2
Fish Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  200
Barn Swallow  10
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  20
Cedar Waxwing  5
Common Yellowthroat  3
Yellow Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1     heard
Song Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  4
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Orchard Oriole  1     fly-by
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  5

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Juvenile (standing) and adult (sitting) American Oystercatchers [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Tree Swallows [Photo by Karl Lukens]