Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 22nd, 2014

Duck numbers and varieties are increasing with both Blue and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, and Northern Pintail being seen. Waders included Great and Snowy Egrets, a Great Blue Heron, and Green Heron on the ponds. A few shorebirds were also seen with several fly-by Pectoral Sandpipers, and Semipalmated Plover and Sandpipers on the ponds, as well as Killdeer and a Lesser Yellowlegs. Among the gulls we found two Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Mike Hannisian, Janet Crawford, Mary Watkins, and Catherine Busch.
57 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  4
Mallard  50
Blue-winged Teal  4
Northern Shoveler  11
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  4
Double-crested Cormorant  4
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  4
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  12
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Semipalmated Plover  6
Killdeer  4
Greater Yellowlegs  1     heard
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Stilt Sandpiper  9
Pectoral Sandpiper  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  20
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  75
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  12
Royal Tern  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  8
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1     heard
American Kestrel  20
Merlin  4
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Tree Swallow  10
Carolina Wren  1
Gray Catbird  1     heard
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  100
Cedar Waxwing  1
Palm Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  2
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  5

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

Green Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Semipalmated Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]