Birding the Meadows - Monday, September 3, 2018

A good day for herons and egrets , including Great Egret, Green Heron, Little Blue Heron and Black-Crowned Night Heron. Also, a Bald Eagle fly-by, and various shorebirds.

Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens,  Mary Watkins,  Steve Weis, Pat Perkins 
52 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  19
Mute Swan  3
Blue-winged Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  1
Gadwall  3
Mallard  17
Mourning Dove  6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Semipalmated Plover  8
Killdeer  1
Sanderling  24
Least Sandpiper  12
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  15
Short-billed Dowitcher  7
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Laughing Gull  4
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  16
Common Tern  2
Forster's Tern  8
Royal Tern  7
Black Skimmer  9
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  3
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Osprey  1
Bald Eagle  1
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
White-eyed Vireo  1
crow sp.  7
Purple Martin  3
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  6
American Goldfinch  5
Song Sparrow  3
Bobolink  7
Baltimore Oriole  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
Yellow Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Indigo Bunting  1

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

Green Heron photo by Karl Lukens