Birding the Meadows - Monday, July 31st, 2017

Water levels high due to recent heavy rains. Still a good number of Common Yellowthroats singing, as well as Indigo Buntings. Purple Martins still here with a few Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows and at least one Northern Rough-winged Swallow. On the beach we had gulls, terns, including Royal and 1 one Lesser Black-backed Gull. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Pat Perkins, Janet Crawford, Mary Watkins, & Carrie Bell.
48 species

Canada Goose  10
Mute Swan  2
Mallard  20
Double-crested Cormorant  7
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  3
Green Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  7
Osprey  6
American Oystercatcher  4
Sanderling  7
Least Sandpiper  4     fly over
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  50
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  3
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  15
Royal Tern  7
Sandwich Tern  1   post juvenile
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  7
Eastern Kingbird  3
American Crow  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Wren  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  3
Cedar Waxwing  8
Common Yellowthroat  6
Yellow Warbler  2
Field Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  3
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Common Grackle  2
Orchard Oriole  1
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  15

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

Common Yellowthroat [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Gray Catbird [Photo by Karl Lukens]