Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, August 25th, 2014

It was a nice birding day. We had a good variety of waders including Great Blue and Green Herons, Great and Snowy Egrets, and Glossy Ibis. The beach held American Oystercatchers, Sanderling, and several Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Shorebirds included Least, Semipalmated, Stilt Sandpipers, and both yellowlegs. Other birds of interest were at least 35 Bobolinks overhead (a few actually landed in the reeds), and many swallows, mostly Tree. We also had good looks at several Prairie Warblers. Leaders: David La Puma, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Marc & Lynne Breslow, Mary Watkins, and Louise Zemaitis.
64 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  2
Mallard  35
Double-crested Cormorant  15
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  5
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  4
Red-tailed Hawk  1     seen by leader
American Oystercatcher  14
Black-bellied Plover  1     briefly seen by leader
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  1     heard
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  8
Stilt Sandpiper  5
Sanderling  30
Least Sandpiper  10
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Short-billed Dowitcher  12
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  7
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
White-eyed Vireo  1     heard
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  3
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  200
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Wren  2     heard
Gray Catbird  3
Brown Thrasher  1     by one leader
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  15
Cedar Waxwing  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  35
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  8
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Various gulls - see labels [Photo by Karl Lukens]