It was another good Friday evening walk at The Meadows. Black Skimmers are back roosting on the beach at the Second Street jetty; great looks at a Green Heron; fantastic looks at a perched Cooper's Hawk; a variety of shorebirds including Semipalmated Sandpipers and Plovers; Least, Stilt, and Solitary Sandpipers with a Short-billed Dowitcher and a lone Western Willet on the beach with a flock of Sanderlings. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy Horn, and Deb Payson.
47 species
Canada Goose 50
Mute Swan 9
Gadwall 14
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 85
Blue-winged Teal 7
Northern Shoveler 13
Green-winged Teal 3
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 3
Green Heron 1
Osprey 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Oystercatcher 4
Semipalmated Plover 3
Killdeer 4
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 1 Western
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Stilt Sandpiper 2
Sanderling 12
Least Sandpiper 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 65
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Wilson's Snipe 1
Laughing Gull 75
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 70
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 7
Black Skimmer 45
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
Mourning Dove 19
American Crow 3
Tree Swallow 2
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 1 heard only
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Bobolink 3
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 3
American Goldfinch 2 heard only
House Sparrow 4
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