Birding the Meadows - Monday, August 7th, 2017

We had some shorebirds on the ponds including Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitchers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plover, and Solitary Sandpipers. On the beach we also had American Oystercatchers and Sanderling. A good number of swallows, mostly Tree, were overhead and landing on the beach. Only one young Osprey was on the nest and it eventually took off. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Warren Cairo, Karl Lukens, Pat Perkins, & Janet Crawford.
48 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  4
Mallard  25
Great Egret  3
Green Heron  1
White Ibis  7     fly over
Glossy Ibis  8
Osprey  3
American Oystercatcher  6
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  1
Sanderling  12
Least Sandpiper  3
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  8
Short-billed Dowitcher  8
Solitary Sandpiper  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  7
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  3
Forster's Tern  8
Royal Tern  1
Mourning Dove  10
Eastern Kingbird  4
Fish Crow  4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  30
Barn Swallow  3
Carolina Wren  1
Gray Catbird  1     heard
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  3
Cedar Waxwing  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  2
Field Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  1
Blue Grosbeak  1     seen by a few
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Common Grackle  2
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  3

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

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]