Birding the Meadows - Monday, October 1, 2018


Beautiful weather, good birding. Ducks are gathering! Highlights are Stilt and Pectoral Sandpipers, Black-bellied Plovers, and 2 remaining Oystercatchers.

Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Mary Watkins, Steve Weiss, Pat Perkins 
44 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  26
Mute Swan  9
Blue-winged Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  12
Gadwall  18
Mallard  22
Green-winged Teal (American)  12
Mourning Dove  5
American Oystercatcher  2
Black-bellied Plover  4
Semipalmated Plover  2
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Parasitic Jaeger  3
Laughing Gull  8
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  2
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  11
Caspian Tern  2
Common/Forster's Tern  30
Royal Tern  10
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  5
Little Blue Heron  1
Osprey  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Cooper's Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  5
Blue Jay  9
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  12
Carolina Wren  4
American Robin  8
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  1
Common Grackle  7
Common Yellowthroat  2
Northern Cardinal  1
House Sparrow  2

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