Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Holly & Mark Lemieux
Temp: 62°F
Winds: E 8 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
Our first-of-southbound-migration-season Solitary Sandpiper bobbed along the edge of the plover pond this morning. Purple Martin numbers are down with many adults already headed to migration staging areas. Field Sparrows are still singing in the dunes with young birds feeding along the grassy edges. If you look carefully at the American Oystercatchers on the beach, you can pick out the recently fledged young bird which, though adult-sized, still has a black tip on its bill.
42 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 42 |
 Canada Goose photo by Roger Horn |
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| Mute Swan | 10 |
| Mallard | 22 |
| Mourning Dove | 5 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
| American Oystercatcher | 8 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 2 |
 Solitary Sandpiper photo by Roger Horn |
|
 Solitary Sandpiper photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Sanderling | 20 |
| Laughing Gull | 43 |
| American Herring Gull | 11 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 30 |
| Least Tern | 2 |
| Forster’s Tern | 12 |
| Common Tern | 8 |
| White Ibis | 60 |
 White Ibis photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Black-crowned Night Heron | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Black Vulture | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey (American) | 6 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 1 |
| American Crow | 5 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 6 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
| Tree Swallow | 26 |
| Purple Martin | 40 |
| Barn Swallow (American) | 1 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 4 |
| Gray Catbird | 3 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
| American Robin | 3 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 2 |
 Cedar Waxwing photo by Roger Horn |
|
| House Sparrow | 2 |
| House Finch | 7 |
| Field Sparrow | 5 |
 Field Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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 Field Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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| Song Sparrow | 3 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 48 |
| Common Grackle | 44 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 3 |
| Northern Cardinal | 4 |
| Indigo Bunting | 4 |
Blog post by Kathy & Roger Horn
