Leaders: Bill & Mary Jane Roache, Alan Crawford, Carrie Bell, Barry Hershfeld, Holly Lemieux, Ruth Bergstrom
Temp: 70° F
Winds: NNW 7 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
Nice looks at a Clapper Rail from the observation deck, good number of shorebirds at the blind including a Stilt Sandpiper. Large number of Barn Swallows migrating along the beach.
47 species
Species | Count |
Mute Swan | 1 |
Mourning Dove | 20 |
Chimney Swift | 2 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
Clapper Rail | 1 |
Killdeer | 1 |
Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 4 |
Willet | 1 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 2 |
Stilt Sandpiper | 1 |
Sanderling | 60 |
Least Sandpiper | 15 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 50 |
Laughing Gull | 10 |
Herring Gull | 12 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 50 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 1 |
Least Tern | 35 |
Forster’s Tern | 4 |
Common Tern | 3 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 10 |
Green Heron | 5 |
White Ibis | 30 |
Turkey Vulture | 1 |
Osprey | 5 |
Belted Kingfisher | 2 |
Downy Woodpecker | 1 |
Fish Crow | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 10 |
Purple Martin | 12 |
Barn Swallow | 40 |
Carolina Wren | 5 |
European Starling | 6 |
Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
House Sparrow | 60 |
House Finch | 5 |
American Goldfinch | 8 |
Field Sparrow | 2 |
White-throated Sparrow | 1 |
Bobolink | 3 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 30 |
Common Grackle | 6 |
Northern Waterthrush | 2 |
Common Yellowthroat | 4 |
Northern Cardinal | 2 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |