Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 29th, 2014

Lots of ducks on the ponds including Mallards, Blue- and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, and one Ruddy Duck. There were a few waders and shorebirds such as Great and Snowy Egrets, and a few Pectoral and a Least Sandpiper. Lots of gulls and some terns including a Caspian Tern, Royal Terns, and at least two Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the beach. One clump of bushes contained at least six Yellow-rumped Warblers, and one Black-throated Green Warbler. Early in the walk we saw two Merlin chasing each other. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Mike Hannisian, Catherine Busch, Carrie Bell, Janet Crawford, and Deb Payson.
58 species

Canada Goose  18
Mute Swan  6
Mallard  50
Blue-winged Teal  12
Northern Shoveler  18
Northern Pintail  4
Green-winged Teal (American)  25
Ruddy Duck  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  2
Osprey  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  4
Killdeer  4
Greater Yellowlegs  1     fly-over w/ Lessers
Lesser Yellowlegs  4     fly-over
Least Sandpiper  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Wilson's Snipe  1
Laughing Gull  15
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  35
Caspian Tern  1
Common Tern  4
Forster's Tern  20
Royal Tern  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Belted Kingfisher  1     heard
Northern Flicker  2
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  3
Tree Swallow  1
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  8
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  120
Common Yellowthroat  5
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  6
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  6
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  5
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  3
House Finch  3
House Sparrow  2

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

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]