It's like midsummer turning to fall at the State Park. Fledgling Purple Martins are out and about, brown-tinged young Terns are hanging out at the beach, speckle-breasted robins are in the woods and shorebirds are feeding along pond edges. The Little Blue Heron is white now, and the seven young Wood Ducks back on Al's Pond didn't look quite as spectacular as they soon will. The American Avocet, reported to be at the Meadows earlier in the morning, was a real treat to see on Bunker Pond at the end of the walk. Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, and Kyle Chelius.
55 species
Canada Goose 16
Mute Swan 72
Wood Duck 7
Mallard 23
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 5
Little Blue Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 4
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 3
American Avocet 1 Continuing bird
American Oystercatcher 4
Killdeer 6
Spotted Sandpiper 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 14
Semipalmated Sandpiper 9
Short-billed Dowitcher 5
Laughing Gull 35
Herring Gull (American) 3
Great Black-backed Gull 9
Least Tern 10
Common Tern 12
Forster's Tern 18
Royal Tern 1
Black Skimmer 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
Mourning Dove 4
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 13
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 3
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 5
American Robin 15
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 4
Cedar Waxwing 4
Common Yellowthroat 8
Field Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 12
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