A foggy, wet morning with most birds low and hidden, but we had great looks at a breeding plumage Little Blue Heron and a very chatty perched Yellow-Breasted Chat.
Leaders: Mary Watkins, Gerry and Chris Dewaghe + 5 participants.
53 species
6 Canada Goose
8 Mallard
1 Common Loon
12 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Egret
4 Snowy Egret
1 Little Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
7 Turkey Vulture
2 Osprey
5 Clapper Rail
4 Killdeer
1 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Willet
22 Laughing Gull
10 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
8 Forster's Tern
4 Mourning Dove
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
1 Downy/Hairy Woodpecker
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Red-eyed Vireo
3 Blue Jay
9 American Crow
2 Fish Crow
6 Purple Martin
20 Tree Swallow
10 Barn Swallow
6 Carolina Chickadee
3 Tufted Titmouse
1 Marsh Wren
4 Carolina Wren
5 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
6 European Starling
5 Common Yellowthroat
3 Yellow Warbler
15 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
3 White-throated Sparrow
8 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
4 Eastern Towhee
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
5 Northern Cardinal
1 Orchard Oriole
25 Red-winged Blackbird
4 Common Grackle
1 American Goldfinch
