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 |
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Clapper Rail photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
| 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 |
|
White Ibis photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
| 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 |
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Northern Waterthrush photo by Carrie Bell |
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Northern Waterthrush photo by Carrie Bell |
|
| Common Yellowthroat | 4 |
| Northern Cardinal | 2 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 |









