Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 27th, 2015

Cloudy with a light rain, just enough to be annoying, but still birds to be seen. A singing Blue Grosbeak at the start, and a number of singing Common Yellowthroats seen. Lots of Mallards and Canada Geese were around, as well as a few shorebirds such as Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, a couple Spotted Sandpipers and one Stilt Sandpiper. Both Yellowlegs were also present. On the beach with the usual gulls were at least five Lesser Black-backed Gulls.  Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Mary Watkins, Deb Payson, and Pat Perkins.
56 species

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  4
Mallard  35
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  1
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  26
Osprey  3
American Oystercatcher  8
Semipalmated Plover  4
Killdeer  3
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Sanderling  15
Least Sandpiper  10
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Short-billed Dowitcher  6
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  10
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  10
Royal Tern  10
Black Skimmer  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  6
Eastern Kingbird  3
American Crow  5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  4
Tree Swallow  8
Barn Swallow  5
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  5
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  7
Yellow Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  5
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  3
Brown-headed Cowbird  15
Orchard Oriole  2
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  5

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

Stilt Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]