Sunset Beach: A Place for all Seasons - Sunday, September 8, 2019


Leaders: Mary W, Ruth B. and Eileen M. We also observed a River Otter on Daveys Lake.
35 species (+1 other taxa)

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Sanderling  12     Flying north over water.
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2     Observed were the Blue Trail crosses Pond Creek.
Spotted Sandpiper  6     Observed were the Blue Trail crosses Pond Creek.  Birds observed flying with stiff shallow wing beats and gliding along Pond Creek. Most birds landed to feed. The birds were observed twirking their rear body as they walked. Brown above, white below, brown sides of breast and a white "comma" between the brown breast and brown wing. :)
Laughing Gull  30
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  7
Common Tern  8     Approximate count: Feeding by the Concrete Ship. Filed mark: Black cap that looks like "Male Pattern Baldness"
Forster's Tern  8     Approximate count: Feeding by the Concrete Ship. Filed mark: Black eye patch and the remainder of the head is pale.
Double-crested Cormorant  23     Most perching on The Concrete Ship. 2 at Dave's Lake
Great Egret  2
Black Vulture  0
Turkey Vulture  8
Osprey  12
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Cooper's Hawk  3
Belted Kingfisher  2
Merlin  1
Alder Flycatcher  1     Harsh rreeBEEa or threePPPoh call heard.
Empidonax sp.  5     Alder/Willow seen along the Blue Trail.
Eastern Kingbird  2
American Crow  17
Tree Swallow  14
Carolina Wren  6
Northern Mockingbird  2
Cedar Waxwing  4
American Goldfinch  1
Bobolink  30
Red-winged Blackbird  42
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Black-and-white Warbler  3
Common Yellowthroat  3
Yellow Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1

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