Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, June 20th, 2016

A beautiful morning with the usual ducks. The only shorebirds were a pair of Willets, six American Oystercatchers on the beach, and seven Killdeer. Two Ospreys were on the nest platform and at least one chick could be seen. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Pat Perkins, and Mary Watkins.
45 species

Canada Goose  175
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  2
Mallard  25
Great Blue Heron  1     after walk at parking lot-fly-over
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  2
Green Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  8
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  7
American Oystercatcher  6
Killdeer  7
Willet  2
Laughing Gull  20
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  25
Least Tern  3
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  2
Royal Tern  1
Black Skimmer  5
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  2
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  6
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  3
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  10
Common Yellowthroat  4
Field Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  15
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Orchard Oriole  1
House Finch  7
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  10

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

Gray Catbird [Photo by Karl Lukens]