Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, August 22nd, 2016

A cooler and less humid day, and a cold front with NW winds, brought some migrants. We had several Yellow Warblers, and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Many waders such as Great and Snowy Egrets, Great Blue Heron, and one Tricolored Heron, some flying overhead. Lots of Sanderlings on the beach as well as American Oystercatchers, and several Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Also had the usual terns plus two Black Terns, five Royal Terns and one Caspian Tern. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Mary Watkins, Pat Perkins, and Deb Payson.
55 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  10
Mallard  60
Blue-winged Teal  6
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  32
Green Heron  1
Black Vulture  4
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  4
American Oystercatcher  10
Killdeer  3
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  50
Least Sandpiper  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Laughing Gull  20
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  5
Lesser Black-backed Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Caspian Tern  1
Black Tern  2
Common Tern  15
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5
Mourning Dove  12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  2
Purple Martin  2
Tree Swallow  25
Barn Swallow  25
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  25
Yellow Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  10
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  2

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Sanderling [Photo by Karl Lukens]