Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Adehl Schwaderer, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 78° F
Winds: NW 12 mph
Weather Conditions: mostly sunny
Shorebirds are on the move now. We had 7 Solitary Sandpipers along with a few yellowlegs, Least Sandpipers and Killdeer around the ponds. Small flocks of both Glossy and White Ibis flew overhead and the rips were teeming with Laughing Gulls and terns. It’s always cool to see Brown Pelicans laboring over the water and we had a single Belted Kingfisher deep-flapping across a pond.
53 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 6 |
| Mute Swan | 83 |
| Gadwall | 4 |
| Mallard | 81 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
| American Oystercatcher | 4 |
| Killdeer | 6 |
| Least Sandpiper | 2 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 5 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 2 |
| Laughing Gull | 41 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 13 |
| Least Tern | 84 |
| Common Tern | 23 |
| Forster’s Tern | 25 |
| Common/Forster’s Tern | 50 |
| Royal Tern | 1 |
| Black Skimmer | 7 |
| Brown Pelican | 3 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| White Ibis | 4 |
| Glossy Ibis | 20 |
| Black Vulture | 2 |
| Turkey Vulture | 3 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 4 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 3 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
| Fish Crow | 1 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 1 |
| Purple Martin | 20 |
| Tree Swallow | 56 |
| Barn Swallow | 14 |
| Carolina Wren | 8 |
| European Starling | 10 |
| Gray Catbird | 2 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 5 |
| House Sparrow | 2 |
| House Finch | 7 |
| American Goldfinch | 4 |
| Field Sparrow | 5 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 63 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 16 |
| Common Grackle | 6 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 7 |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 |
| Indigo Bunting | 6 |
