Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 75° F
Winds: SW 8 mph
Weather Conditions: rain
This morning’s rain wasn’t hard enough to deter the birds from doing their thing. Though we didn’t have a single Great Blue Heron, we did have both night herons and a Green Heron. The Purple Martin colony is thriving with over 250 chicks banded yesterday and lots of adults calling over the park. Least Terns are busy on the beach and both Blue Grosbeaks and Indigo Buntings were singing in the dunes.
40 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 32 |
| Mute Swan | 78 |
| Gadwall | 4 |
| Mallard | 26 |
| American Black Duck | 1 |
| Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 |
| Chimney Swift | 1 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 |
| American Oystercatcher | 2 |
| Least Sandpiper | 8 |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 12 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 2 |
| Laughing Gull | 28 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 2 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 16 |
| Least Tern | 28 |
| Forster’s Tern | 8 |
| Black Skimmer | 2 |
| Green Heron | 1 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1 |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
| American Crow | 2 |
| Fish Crow | 4 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Purple Martin | 40 |
| Tree Swallow | 4 |
| House Wren | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 6 |
| European Starling | 10 |
| Gray Catbird | 2 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
| American Robin | 11 |
| Field Sparrow | 5 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 20 |
| Common Grackle | 4 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 6 |
| Northern Cardinal | 4 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 2 |
| Indigo Bunting | 4 |
