Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, May 15th, 2017

A clear, cool, and very windy morning. We had lots of swallows and many Chimney Swifts. Rain brought the water levels up and thus not much mud flats for shorebirds. We did get Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitchers, Spotted Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, and Killdeer. On the beach we had American Oystercatchers, Sanderling, and a fly-over Red Knot. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Pat Perkins, Janet Crawford, & Karen Thompson.
50 species

Canada Goose  6
Mute Swan  3
Gadwall  4
Mallard  12
Double-crested Cormorant  9
Great Egret  3
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  4
American Oystercatcher  4
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  2
Red Knot  1
Sanderling  12
Dunlin  1
Least Sandpiper  8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Short-billed Dowitcher  10
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Willet  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Laughing Gull  30
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Least Tern  15
Forster's Tern  2
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  25
American Crow  3
Fish Crow  3
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  5
Bank Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  20
Cliff Swallow  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  1
Common Yellowthroat  3
Prairie Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
House Finch  3
House Sparrow  2

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

Least Sandpiper [Photo by Karl Lukens]