Birding the Meadows - Monday, September 17, 2018

Good day for water birds, with 5 species of herons/egrets. Also 5 species of ducks. And we swept the falcons with a peregrine, a Merlin and 3 kestrels. Not to mention the Wilson's snipe and Virginia rail!

Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Janet Crawford,  Mary Watkins, Pat Perkins 
49 species

Canada Goose  43
Mute Swan  4
Blue-winged Teal  11
Northern Shoveler  3
Gadwall  1
Mallard  18
Green-winged Teal  3
Black Scoter  5
Mourning Dove  7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Virginia Rail  1
American Oystercatcher  6
Semipalmated Plover  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2
Wilson's Snipe  1
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Parasitic Jaeger  2
Laughing Gull  35
Herring Gull  6
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  52
Caspian Tern  2
Common Tern  3
Forster's Tern  6
Royal Tern  3
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  1
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Osprey  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  3
American Kestrel  3
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  12
Carolina Wren  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  1
American Goldfinch  1
Bobolink  7
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  5
Yellow Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  2

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