Birds Before Dinner - Friday, July 22nd, 2016

A typically sultry late July evening walk through the Meadows provided good looks at a variety of birds including a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers on along the dune path, a single Pectoral Sandpiper, and a many terns resting on the middle pond along with one Black Skimmer. Leaders: Bert Hixon, Catherine Busch, and BJ Pinnock.
39 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  X
Mallard  X
Black Scoter  1
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  5
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Osprey  5
American Oystercatcher  6
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Least Sandpiper  X
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  X
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Laughing Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  X
Forster's Tern  X
Black Skimmer  1
Mourning Dove  4
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
crow sp.  X
Purple Martin  X
Tree Swallow  X
Barn Swallow  X
Carolina Wren  1
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  X
Common Yellowthroat  10
Field Sparrow  4
Red-winged Blackbird  X
American Goldfinch  X

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