Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 75° F
Winds: NW 6 mph
Weather Conditions: mostly sunny
Though most of the state park Purple Martins have left on their long journey to South American wintering grounds, the parking lot held a large flock of Laughing Gulls, with many juveniles in their gray and brown plumage. A single Surf Scoter fed in the surf just offshore. Migrants included Yellow Warbler, Pied-billed Grebe, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Short-billed Dowitcher, and Spotted, Least, Semipalmated and Solitary Sandpiper.
48 species
| Species | Count |
| Mute Swan | 26 |
| Mallard | 55 |
| Surf Scoter | 1 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 21 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 6 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 |
| Least Sandpiper | 4 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 1 |
| Laughing Gull | 46 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 8 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 50 |
| Least Tern | 9 |
| Forster’s Tern | 5 |
| Little Blue Heron | 2 |
| Green Heron | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 2 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 3 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 2 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 3 |
| Fish Crow | 6 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 7 |
| Tree Swallow | 2 |
| Purple Martin | 22 |
| Barn Swallow | 7 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 2 |
| Carolina Wren | 8 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 |
| Brown Thrasher | 2 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
| American Robin | 1 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 2 |
| House Finch | 16 |
| American Goldfinch | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 102 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 5 |
| Common Grackle | 2 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 2 |
| Indigo Bunting | 4 |
