Birding the Meadows with Pete Dunne - Monday, October 31st, 2016

Cold and breezy with lots of ducks including Mallard, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail, Ruddy Ducks and Wood Ducks. At least one Cackling Goose with many Canada Geese. Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls were on the beach and a few Northern Gannets off shore. Shorebirds included Semipalmated Sandpipers, a White-rumped Sandpiper, three Pectoral Sandpipers, and two Long-billed Dowitchers.  Leaders: Pete Dunne, Karl Lukens, Janet Crawford, Pat Perkins, Mary Watkins, Brett Ewald, and Scott Whittle.
57 species

Snow Goose  4     1 adult and 2 juvenile Blue Geese, 1 juvenile Snow
Cackling Goose  1
Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  6
Wood Duck  5
Gadwall  15
American Wigeon  15
American Black Duck  4
Mallard  20
Northern Shoveler  4
Northern Pintail  3
Green-winged Teal  50
Ruddy Duck  6
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  3
Double-crested Cormorant  25
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  10
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
American Coot  3
Killdeer  3
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Long-billed Dowitcher  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  15
Lesser Black-backed Gull  2
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Mourning Dove  5
Northern Flicker  3
American Crow  5
Tree Swallow  20
Carolina Chickadee  1     heard
Carolina Wren  1     heard
Eastern Bluebird  1
American Robin  150
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  10
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  25
Song Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
Dickcissel  1     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  15
Eastern Meadowlark  1
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  1

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

Ruddy Duck [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Wood Duck [Photo by Karl Lukens]