Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, September 8th, 2016

A hot, humid morning with the cloying smell of Sweet Autumn Clematis all around us. We had such goods birds at the ponds and shoreline that we spent half of the time there. These included Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, Killdeer, Black Tern, and both Common and Forster's Terns in a variety of plumages. Leaders: Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, and Warren Cairo.
45 species

Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 7
Mallard 6
Northern Shoveler 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 6
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Bald Eagle 1
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 6
Least Sandpiper 18
Semipalmated Sandpiper 7
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Bonaparte's Gull 1 Found by Karl Lukens and confirmed by other leaders.
Laughing Gull 200
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 25
Black Tern 1
Common Tern 30
Forster's Tern 25
Royal Tern 4
Black Skimmer 18
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Mourning Dove 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 heard
Tree Swallow 25
Carolina Wren 4 heard
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 9
Cedar Waxwing 10
Common Yellowthroat 5
Yellow Warbler 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 1 heard
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 18
Red-winged Blackbird 2
House Sparrow 22

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Black Skimmers [Photo by Karl Lukens]