Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, September 12th, 2016

A cool and breezy morning with easterly winds which probably hindered migration. We did have Yellow Warbler and several Palm Warblers. Raptors included Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Merlin, Cooper's Hawk, and two adult Bald Eagles. Shorebirds were scarce. On the beach we had at least four Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Leaders: Pete Dunne, Chuck Slugg, Karl Lukens, Steve Weis, and Pat Perkins.
60 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  4
Mallard  10
Blue-winged Teal  2
Northern Shoveler  5
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  1
Glossy Ibis  1
Black Vulture  5
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  3
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  3
Sanderling  40
Least Sandpiper  8
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Laughing Gull  5
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  2
Lesser Black-backed Gull  4
Great Black-backed Gull  5
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  4
Royal Tern  2
Black Skimmer  1
Mourning Dove  15
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  5
American Kestrel  5
Merlin  2
Eastern Kingbird  1
American Crow  3
Tree Swallow  10
Carolina Chickadee  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1     heard by a few
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  4
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  20
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Bobolink  20
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Common Grackle  5
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  2

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

Blue-winged Teal [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Lesser Black-backed Gull [Photo by Karl Lukens]