Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 1st, 2014

We had some clouds, some sun, and a few rain drops and good birding. Waders included a couple of Great Egrets, a Glossy Ibis, Green Herons, and one feeding and one fly-over immature Little Blue Heron. Shorebirds included a Willet, both yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitchers, and Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers. Highlights were two individual Soras and good scope views of an American Golden-Plover. Leaders: Mike Hannisian, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Catherine Busch, and Carrie Bell.
54 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  2
Mallard  50
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  3
Glossy Ibis  1
Osprey  2
Sora  2     adults
American Oystercatcher  6
American Golden-Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  5
Killdeer  1
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  35
Least Sandpiper  20
Semipalmated Sandpiper  25
Western Sandpiper  1
Short-billed Dowitcher  2
Laughing Gull  75
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  8
Black Skimmer  6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  9
Mourning Dove  10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  1
American Crow  4
Fish Crow  1
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  5
Marsh Wren  2
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  8
Common Yellowthroat  3
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  3
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  5

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

Sora [Photo by Karl Lukens]

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]