Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, August 17, 2015

We started off the walk with Indigo Bunting, five-six female type Orchard Orioles, and five fly-over Bobolinks. The usual suspects were on the mudflats, i.e., Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper, Least and Spotted Sandpiper, Killdeer, and both Yellowlegs. On the beach we had American Oystercatchers, Sanderling, one Ruddy Turnstone, and at least five Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Tree Swallows were all over the beach area. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Janet Crawford, Deb Payson, Mary Watkins, and Pat Perkins.
61 species

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  4
American Wigeon  1
Mallard  30
Double-crested Cormorant  7
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  7
Green Heron  3
Osprey  5
Northern Harrier  1     seen by a few
American Oystercatcher  9
Semipalmated Plover  15
Killdeer  6
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  35
Least Sandpiper  25
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Laughing Gull  30
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  2
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  12
Royal Tern  6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
Fish Crow  1
Purple Martin  8
Tree Swallow  150
Barn Swallow  10
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  3
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  4
Prairie Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  6
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  5     fly-over
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  8
Brown-headed Cowbird  25
Orchard Oriole  6
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  3

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

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]