Leaders: Bill and MJ Roache, Alan Crawford, John McElroy, Barry Hershfeld, Ruth Bergstrom
Temp: 73° F
Winds: WSW 8 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
Nice looks at Green Herons flying and skulking, plentiful Semi-palmated and Least Sandpipers off the blind. Spectacular swarms of Tree Swallows at the beach.
47 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 4 |
Mallard | 1 |
Mourning Dove | 5 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 |
Killdeer | 3 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 1 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 3 |
Sanderling | 12 |
Least Sandpiper | 30 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 80 |
Laughing Gull | 2 |
Herring Gull | 12 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 2 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 1 |
Forster’s Tern | 4 |
Royal Tern | 2 |
Green Heron | 2 |
Great Egret | 2 |
Osprey | 8 |
Empidonax sp. | 1 |
Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
Blue Jay | 2 |
American Crow | 2 |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 |
Bank Swallow | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 1000 |
Barn Swallow | 20 |
Carolina Wren | 3 |
European Starling | 4 |
Gray Catbird | 2 |
Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
Cedar Waxwing | 1 |
House Sparrow | 4 |
House Finch | 2 |
American Goldfinch | 1 |
Field Sparrow | 8 |
Song Sparrow | 10 |
Bobolink | 30 |
Baltimore Oriole | 2 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 4 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 |
Common Grackle | 2 |
Northern Waterthrush | 1 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
Prairie Warbler | 2 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |