Birding the Meadows - Monday, October 9th, 2017

Cloudy, breezy, and threatening rain. Passerines were hard to come by, but some nice varieties of ducks including both Teal, American Wigeon, Gadwall, Black Duck, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, and Mallard. Lots of gulls on the beach as well as at least 12 Royal Terns. A Little Blue Heron was feeding in the east pond. A Sora and a Virginia Rail were either seen or heard by many in the group. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, Mary Watkins, Marc & Lynne Breslow.
41 species

Canada Goose  4
Mute Swan  4
Blue-winged Teal  2
Northern Shoveler  12
Gadwall  8
American Wigeon  4
Mallard  30
American Black Duck  2
Northern Pintail  6
Green-winged Teal  2
Black Scoter  30
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  4
Little Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  2
Virginia Rail  1
Sora  1
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  50
Caspian Tern  1
Royal Tern  12
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  4
Northern Flicker  1
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  1
Fish Crow  2
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  2
European Starling  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  2
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  1

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