Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn
Temp: 74°F
Winds: E 6 mph
Weather Conditions: partly cloudy
Least and Semi-palmated Sandpipers can at times be ID challenges but not when they are 15 feet away and in the same binocular view, as was the case this morning along the Bunker Pond dune path. Brown Pelicans and Osprey were diving for fish while a Green Heron and a Little Blue Heron used their own “wait for it…” fishing methods. It was interesting to see a couple of Pine Warblers feeding together, one an adult male and the other a very drab young bird.
52 species
| Species | Count |
| Mute Swan | 86 |
| Mallard | 48 |
| Wild Turkey | 13 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 |
| Chimney Swift | 3 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 5 |
| American Oystercatcher | 1 |
| Killdeer | 5 |
| Least Sandpiper | 4 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 2 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 5 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 10 |
| Laughing Gull | 28 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 2 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 22 |
| Least Tern | 4 |
| Common Tern | 4 |
| Forster’s Tern | 8 |
| Royal Tern | 2 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 1 |
| Brown Pelican (Atlantic) | 6 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Snowy Egret | 2 |
| Little Blue Heron | 1 |
 Little Blue Heron photo by K. Horn |
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| Green Heron | 1 |
| Glossy Ibis | 4 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 11 |
| Northern Harrier | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 2 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 1 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 7 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
| American Crow | 16 |
| Purple Martin | 14 |
| Barn Swallow (American) | 2 |
| Carolina Wren | 11 |
| European Starling | 11 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
| American Goldfinch | 12 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 40 |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 |
| Pine Warbler | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 1 |
| Indigo Bunting | 2 |
