Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, November 10th, 2014

It was a nice morning with lots of ducks to look at. They included numerous Gadwalls, Mallards, Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, Northern Shovelers, a female type Redhead, Ruddy Ducks, and scoters off shore. Two birds of interest were a constantly calling Virginia Rail (as another flew briefly by) and a fly-by American Bittern. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Steve Weis, Janet Crawford, and Deb Payson.
64 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  75
Mute Swan  8
Gadwall  50
American Wigeon  3
American Black Duck  5
Mallard  25
Blue-winged Teal  1
Northern Shoveler  6
Northern Pintail  8
Green-winged Teal  50
Redhead  1
Surf Scoter  50
scoter sp.  100
Bufflehead  8
Ruddy Duck  15
Red-throated Loon  2
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  3
Double-crested Cormorant  8
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  2
Virginia Rail  2     saw  1 briefly, heard 1 loud and continuous
American Coot  25
Killdeer  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Bonaparte's Gull  1
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  15
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Mourning Dove  40
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  8
Blue Jay  10
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  10
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  1
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  50
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  17     seen by leader
Yellow-rumped Warbler  25
Eastern Towhee  1     heard
Song Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  6
Dark-eyed Junco  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  50
American Goldfinch  8
House Sparrow  5

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

Great Egret [Photo by Karl Lukens]