Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 70°F
Winds: N 0-5 mph
Weather Conditions: partly cloudy
It sounds like late summer at the State Park, with Royal Terns calling from out over the water. We had to sort carefully through the Snowy Egrets to find a hatch-year Little Blue Heron with just a touch of blue coming into its flight feathers. Least Sandpipers foraged along pond edges in several places and a couple of large flocks of Semipalmated Sandpipers flew by. Two male American Kestrels flew overhead with their rufus tails and dark tail bands bright against the blue sky.
66 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 40 |
| Mute Swan | 40 |
| Mallard | 113 |
| Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 7 |
| Chimney Swift | 1 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 5 |
| Killdeer | 4 |
| Sanderling | 3 |
| Least Sandpiper | 9 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 93 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 2 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 7 |
| Willet (Western) | 1 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 14 |
| Laughing Gull | 27 |
| Herring Gull | 6 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 35 |
| Common Tern | 1 |
| Forster’s Tern | 4 |
| Royal Tern | 9 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 6 |
| Brown Pelican | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron | 2 |
| Great Egret | 2 |
| Snowy Egret | 10 |
| Little Blue Heron | 2 |
| Green Heron | 1 |
| Glossy Ibis | 3 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey | 7 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| American Kestrel | 2 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 9 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 3 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 2 |
| Blue Jay | 1 |
| Fish Crow | 2 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 9 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
| Purple Martin | 10 |
| Tree Swallow | 2 |
| Barn Swallow | 20 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 6 |
| Gray Catbird | 7 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 8 |
| House Finch | 5 |
| American Goldfinch | 8 |
| Field Sparrow | 1 |
| Bobolink | 12 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 8 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 1 |
| Common Grackle | 2 |
| Boat-tailed Grackle | 2 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 1 |
| Tennessee Warbler | 1 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 5 |
| American Redstart | 2 |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 4 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 |
