It was a very nice day to bird with a light cloud cover and sporadic movement of raptors with multiple birds in the air at the same time. While looking at the beach, we had a Great Cormorant fly by, Forster's and Royal Terns, and a variety of gulls. Moving to Bunker Pond, we saw a variety of ducks including Mallards, American Wigeon, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, and Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal. There was also a juvenile Little Blue Heron, Green Heron, Great Egret, and Great Blue Heron. There was a Belted Kingfisher perched on the post. In the back of the park on the pond way in the back, we saw a Common Gallinule. Leaders: Chuck Slugg and Warren Cairo.
54 species
Canada Goose 55
Mute Swan 29
Gadwall 4
American Wigeon 10
Mallard 12
Blue-winged Teal 10
Northern Shoveler 2
Northern Pintail 6
Green-winged Teal 4
Black Scoter 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 3
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 7
Cooper's Hawk 9
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Common Gallinule 1
Parasitic Jaeger 1
Laughing Gull 4
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 6
Mourning Dove 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 6
American Kestrel 2
Peregrine Falcon 4
Blue Jay 35
American Crow 5
Fish Crow 1
Tree Swallow 84
Carolina Chickadee 2 heard
Carolina Wren 5 heard
Eastern Bluebird 1 heard
Gray Catbird 2 heard
Northern Mockingbird 15
Northern Cardinal 2 heard
Red-winged Blackbird 9
House Sparrow 4
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