Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, July 25th, 2016

Good waders including Great Blue, Green, Little Blue (juvenile), and Black-crowned Night-Herons, Great and Snowy Egrets, and Glossy Ibis. On the beach we had at least six Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and several American Oystercatchers including one still on nest. A few shore birds were also present on the mud flats. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Pat Perkins, and Barb Bassett.
55 species

Canada Goose  60
Mute Swan  7
Mallard  25
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  10
Little Blue Heron  1     juv.
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  2
Osprey  6
American Oystercatcher  5
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Sanderling  8
Least Sandpiper  15
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  8
Short-billed Dowitcher  4
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  2
Lesser Black-backed Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Least Tern  5
Common Tern  5
Forster's Tern  10
Royal Tern  1
Black Skimmer  3
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  8
American Crow  1
Purple Martin  20
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  4
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  5
Common Yellowthroat  6
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  5
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  3

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

American Oystercatcher [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Immature Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Osprey adult and juveniles [Photo by Karl Lukens]