Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 21st, 2015

It was cool and windy, with many raptors in the sky, including American Kestrels, Merlin, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, and a Northern Harrier. Also overhead were both vultures, Red-winged Blackbirds, and Bobolinks. Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Janet Crawford, Pat Perkins, Deb Payson, & Mary Watkins.
45 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  3
Black Swan  1  continuing probable escapee usually at Bunker Pond
Mallard  4
Common Loon  1     flyover
Double-crested Cormorant  25
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  3
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  10
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  15
Cooper's Hawk  3
Bald Eagle  2
Killdeer  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Laughing Gull  75
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  20
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Forster's Tern  8
Royal Tern  12
Black Skimmer  1
Mourning Dove  6
Common Nighthawk  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Northern Flicker  1
American Kestrel  20
Merlin  6
American Crow  6
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  75
Barn Swallow  1
Carolina Wren  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  25
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  30
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  2
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  1

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

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]