Hawks, Trails, and Beach - Saturday, September 24th, 2016

While gathering at the pavilion, we watched a Bald Eagle chasing an Osprey and trying to get its fish. We had an up close and personal look at a Spotted Sandpiper at the edge of Bunker Pond. We had a flyover Belted Kingfisher and a large siege of Great Blue Herons overhead as well. There was a large group of terns and gulls feeding in the rips. We ended the walk with a Merlin flying across the parking lot. Leaders: Chuck Slugg and Bert Hixon.
37 species

Canada Goose 30
Mute Swan 5
Mallard 14
Blue-winged Teal 7
Double-crested Cormorant 150
Great Blue Heron 13
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 1
Osprey 8
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 3
Killdeer 4 eard
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 45
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 8
Common Tern 20
Forster's Tern 8
Royal Tern 3
Black Skimmer 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
Mourning Dove 6
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 4
Merlin 1
American Crow 3 heard
Tree Swallow 50
Carolina Chickadee 3 heard
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 4 heard
American Robin 1 heard
Gray Catbird 3 heard
Northern Mockingbird 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
American Redstart 1

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