Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, August 10th, 2015

We started off in the parking lot with a singing Blue Grosbeak and ended there with a singing Indigo Bunting. Elsewhere, we had numerous shorebirds including Killdeer, Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Sanderling, both Yellowlegs, and Short-billed Dowitcher. On the beach, we had Royal Terns and at least six Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Janet Crawford, Carrie Bell, Mary Watkins, and Pat Perkins.
56 species

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  2
Mallard  20
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  32
Little Blue Heron  1     juv.
Glossy Ibis  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  4
American Oystercatcher  3
Semipalmated Plover  10
Killdeer  5
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Sanderling  10
Least Sandpiper  20
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  25
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  40
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  3
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  5
Royal Tern  8
Black Skimmer  3
Mourning Dove  15
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Fish Crow  10
Purple Martin  5
Tree Swallow  75
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  3
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  20
Yellow Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  8
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  1

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Little Blue Heron (juvenile), Snowy Egret, and Great Egret (from front to back) [Photo by Karl Lukens]