Leaders Group 1: Jackie & Keith Parker, Pam Hubert
Leaders Group 2: Robin & Alan Crawford
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Weather Conditions: Sunny, warm, and humid, with a light breeze.
The beach continues to be inaccessible due to the lake left by the recent nor’easter, but good numbers of gulls were clustered around it, with Skimmers skimming the lake! Also, nice looks at a juvenile Sora at the blind.
Group 1
Butterflies: Monarch, Common Buckeye, Orange Sulphur, American Lady, Red Admiral, Common Checkered Skipper, Red-spotted Admiral, Pearl Crescent, Eastern Tailed Blue, Fiery Skipper, Gray Hairstreak, Cabbage White
34 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 14 |
| Mute Swan | 3 |
| Northern Shoveler | 2 |
| Gadwall | 7 |
| Mallard | 2 |
| Northern Pintail | 1 |
| Green-winged Teal | 5 |
| Mourning Dove | 5 |
| American Oystercatcher | 2 |
| Laughing Gull | 20 |
| American Herring Gull | 6 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 15 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 12 |
| Royal Tern | 1 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 1 |
| Snowy Egret | 3 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 4 |
| American Kestrel | 7 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 3 |
| American Crow | 2 |
| European Starling | 8 |
| Gray Catbird | 4 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
| House Sparrow | 4 |
| House Finch | 12 |
| American Goldfinch | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 9 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 2 |
Group 2
41 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 16 |
| Mute Swan | 3 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 8 |
| Northern Shoveler | 2 |
| Gadwall | 5 |
| American Wigeon | 1 |
| Mallard | 2 |
| Mourning Dove | 8 |
| Virginia Rail | 1 |
| Sora | 1 |
| Laughing Gull | 4 |
| American Herring Gull | 8 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 14 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 12 |
| Black Skimmer | 12 |
| Forster’s Tern | 2 |
| Snowy Egret | 2 |
| Great Egret | 2 |
| Osprey | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 2 |
| American Kestrel | 1 |
| Merlin | 5 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 2 |
| Blue Jay | 15 |
| American Crow | 4 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Tree Swallow | 40 |
| Carolina Wren | 1 |
| European Starling | 50 |
| Gray Catbird | 4 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
| American Robin | 2 |
| House Sparrow | 12 |
| House Finch | 14 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 16 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 |
| Common Grackle (Florida/Purple) | 2 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| Palm Warbler | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 1 |
