Sunset Birding at The Meadows - Friday, September 26th, 2014

Beautiful sunset, cool, light breeze----perfect conditions for a walk if the gnats had stayed away! The Meadows was filled with a variety of birds. Duck species were abundant including Northern Pintail, American Wigeon, Northern Shovelers, Blue- and Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Black Duck, and Mallards. The mix of shorebirds included Solitary, Semipalmated, and Pectoral Sandpipers, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Wilson's Snipe, and Sora. Other birds of interest included Black Skimmers and Royal Terns. We also watched a Sharp-shinned Hawk try to pick off one of the Solitary Sandpipers. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Kathy & Roger Horn, Warren Cairo, and Deb Payson.
45 species

Canada Goose  25
Mute Swan  14
Gadwall  1
American Wigeon  3
American Black Duck  3
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  10
Northern Shoveler  6
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  12
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Sora  1
Killdeer  3
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  11
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  7
Wilson's Snipe  1
Laughing Gull  40
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  7
Royal Tern  3
Black Skimmer  200
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  12
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  3
Peregrine Falcon  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  3     heard only
Gray Catbird  3
European Starling  4
Savannah Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  5
House Sparrow  7

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Wilson's Snipe [Photo by Roger Horn]