Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 65°F
Winds: N 8 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
There is a great mix of birds around right now. The shorebird variety is good; we had Pectoral and White-rumped Sandpiper along with Least, Semi-palmated, and Solitary, and Semi-palmated Plover. Six Tricolored Herons circled close overhead and both Great and Snowy Egrets were perched in treetops around a pond. There are also a lot of Green Herons, with several feeding along the edges of Lighthouse Pond, one giving us very close views from the viewing platform.
59 species
| Species | Count |
| Mute Swan | 81 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 6 |
| Northern Shoveler | 2 |
| Mallard | 22 |
| American Black Duck | 2 |
| duck sp. | 20 |
| Mourning Dove | 5 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 |
| Semipalmated Plover | 16 |
| Killdeer | 4 |
| Least Sandpiper | 16 |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | 1 |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 4 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 18 |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 1 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
 Solitary Sandpiper photo by Roger Horn |
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| Greater Yellowlegs | 6 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 3 |
| Laughing Gull | 37 |
| Herring Gull | 39 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 34 |
| Common Tern | 7 |
| Forster’s Tern | 12 |
| Royal Tern | 8 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 4 |
| Great Blue Heron | 8 |
| Great Egret | 7 |
| Snowy Egret | 5 |
| Tricolored Heron | 6 |
| Green Heron | 7 |
 Green Heron photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Green Heron photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Green Heron photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Green Heron photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Green Heron photo by Kathy Horn |
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| Glossy Ibis | 3 |
| Black Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 4 |
| Northern Harrier | 1 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 |
| Barred Owl | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 3 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 2 |
| Purple Martin | 2 |
| Barn Swallow | 2 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 9 |
| European Starling | 21 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 1 |
| Bobolink | 5 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 7 |
| Ovenbird | 1 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| American Redstart | 1 |
| Prairie Warbler | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 |
