Leaders: Mary Watkins, Carrie Bell
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Hazy. Humid. But some great birds! Highlights included Brown Pelican, Prairie Warbler, and several Black Terns in a mixed feeding flock with Common, Forster’s and Least Terns. Great comparison views!
47 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 37 |
Mallard | 14 |
Mourning Dove | 11 |
Chimney Swift | 3 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
American Oystercatcher | 6 |
Semipalmated Plover | 2 |
Killdeer | 5 |
Stilt Sandpiper | 1 |
Sanderling | 15 |
Least Sandpiper | 2 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 12 |
Short-billed Dowitcher | 1 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 1 |
Laughing Gull | 9 |
Herring Gull | 2 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 16 |
Least Tern | 45 |
Black Tern | 6 |
Common Tern | 8 |
Forster’s Tern | 6 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 4 |
Brown Pelican | 1 |
Great Egret | 3 |
Snowy Egret | 1 |
Glossy Ibis | 11 |
Osprey | 2 |
Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
American Crow | 2 |
Fish Crow | 7 |
Purple Martin | 4 |
Tree Swallow | 6 |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 3 |
European Starling | 6 |
Gray Catbird | 2 |
Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
House Finch | 3 |
American Goldfinch | 10 |
Field Sparrow | 2 |
Song Sparrow | 1 |
Bobolink | 10 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 3 |
Northern Waterthrush | 2 |
Prairie Warbler | 1 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |