Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Highlights included 3 little blue herons, 2 tricolored herons, several species of shorebirds,  and a lesser black backed gull (a lifer for a Washington visitor!)

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Michael McCabe

46 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  26
Blue-winged Teal  2
Gadwall  12
Mallard  75
Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)  2
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
American Oystercatcher  6
Killdeer  2
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Sanderling  10
Least Sandpiper  22
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  12
Wilson's Snipe  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  25
Laughing Gull  35
Lesser Black-backed Gull (graellsii)  1
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  16
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  8
Little Blue Heron  3
Tricolored Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  7
Osprey  2
American Crow  8
Tree Swallow  15
Barn Swallow  4
Carolina Wren  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  1
House Finch  1
Field Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Indigo Bunting  1

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