Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Holly & Mark Lemieux
Temp: 72° F
Winds: S 15 mph
Weather Conditions: mostly cloudy, early drizzle
Overcast days with light rain can be very good for birding and this was one of those days. The drizzle stopped just after we got started and birds came out to feed. We saw both Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, and multiple Yellow Warblers and Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. A Willow Flycatcher perched up next to an Eastern Towhee, and we watched Least Sandpipers, Green Herons and a Spotted Sandpiper feeding along pond edges. Least, Common, Forster’s and Royal Terns lounged on the beach, with Black Scooters visible in the surf behind them.
54 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 44 |
| Mute Swan | 5 |
| Mallard | 7 |
| Black Scoter | 4 |
| Northern Bobwhite | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 6 |
 Mourning Dove photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Chimney Swift | 3 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 4 |
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 |
| Least Sandpiper | 5 |
 Least Sandpiper photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Laughing Gull | 40 |
| American Herring Gull | 6 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 4 |
| Least Tern | 7 |
| Forster’s Tern | 3 |
| Common Tern | 2 |
| Royal Tern | 3 |
| White Ibis | 36 |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | 1 |
| Green Heron | 2 |
 Green Heron photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Osprey (American) | 8 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 1 |
| Willow Flycatcher | 1 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 2 |
| Blue Jay | 2 |
| American Crow | 2 |
| Fish Crow | 6 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Tree Swallow | 10 |
| Purple Martin | 70 |
 Purple Martin photo by Roger Horn |
|
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 1 |
| Barn Swallow (American) | 2 |
| Northern House Wren (Northern) | 1 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 5 |
| Gray Catbird | 7 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 1 |
| House Sparrow | 1 |
| House Finch | 2 |
| American Goldfinch | 5 |
| Field Sparrow | 4 |
| Song Sparrow | 1 |
| Eastern Towhee (Red-eyed) | 1 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 1 |
| Orchard Oriole | 2 |
 Orchard Oriole photo by Roger Horn |
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| Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
 Baltimore Oriole photo by Roger Horn |
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| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 10 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 12 |
| Common Grackle | 1 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 7 |
| Northern Yellow Warbler | 4 |
| Northern Cardinal | 7 |
| Indigo Bunting | 3 |
Blog post by Kathy & Roger Horn
