Birding the Meadows - Monday, August 26, 2019


Had three hybrid ducks, possibly mallard-pintail?  Elongated bodies, narrow long necks, pointed tails with obvious white feathers sticking them.  
51 species

Canada Goose  6
Mute Swan  9
Blue-winged Teal  1
Gadwall  5
Mallard  37
American Black Duck  1
Green-winged Teal  3
Mourning Dove  9
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
American Oystercatcher  5
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  2
Sanderling  48
Least Sandpiper  12
Semipalmated Sandpiper  27
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Willet (Western)  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  8
Laughing Gull  8
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  29
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  6
Double-crested Cormorant  24
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  7
Snowy Egret  9
White Ibis  3     Immatures seen in flight with flock of Glossy Ibis, with gray-brown plumage.
Glossy Ibis  15
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  6
Bald Eagle  1
Purple Martin  10
Tree Swallow  130
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Wren  1
Gray Catbird  2
American Goldfinch  2
Field Sparrow  2
Bobolink  4
Red-winged Blackbird  40
Brown-headed Cowbird  12
Common Grackle  25
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  2

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