Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, October 3rd, 2016

Lots of water with increasing numbers and variety of ducks, such as Blue- and Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Mallard, Northern Shovelers, Ruddy Duck, American Wigeon and three Eurasian Wigeon. We also had a flyover Merlin and a perched Peregrine Falcon. At least two Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach while overhead and on the beach were about 2000 Tree Swallows. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Janet Crawford, Pat Perkins, and Mary Watkins.
42 species

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  6
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  12
Mallard  15
Blue-winged Teal  10
Northern Shoveler  8
Green-winged Teal  15
Ruddy Duck  3
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  250
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  7
Snowy Egret  1
Osprey  3
Northern Harrier  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Sanderling  15
Parasitic Jaeger  1
Laughing Gull  5
Ring-billed Gull  8
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  6
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  10
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Tree Swallow  2000
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  5
Yellow Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  2
House Finch  4
House Sparrow  3

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

Ring-billed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]