Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 28th, 2015

There was a nice movement of Sharp-shinned Hawks with a few Cooper's Hawks and Ospreys mixed in. Many gulls were on the beach with at least three Lesser Black-backed Gulls with the usual Great Black-backed, Herring, Laughing, and Ring-billed Gulls. There were still a few shorebirds to be seen including Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, and Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Janet Crawford, Mary Watkins, Pat Perkins, and Carrie Bell.
46 species

Canada Goose  30
Mute Swan  4
Gadwall  4
Mallard  20
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Egret  2
Green Heron  1
Osprey  6
Sharp-shinned Hawk  18
Cooper's Hawk  1
Killdeer  3
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  4
Sanderling  15
Least Sandpiper  10
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Western Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  6
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  40
Forster's Tern  1
Royal Tern  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  10
Northern Flicker  8
American Kestrel  5
Merlin  2
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  5
Tree Swallow  30
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  2
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  75
Common Yellowthroat  1
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  2
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  5
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  1

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

Lesser and Great Black-backed Gulls [Photo by Karl Lukens]