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Birding the Meadows – August 26, 2024

Leaders: Bill and MJ Roache, Alan Crawford, John McElroy, Barry Hershfeld, Ruth Bergstrom

Temp: 73° F

Winds: WSW 8 mph

Weather Conditions: sunny

Nice looks at Green Herons flying and skulking, plentiful Semi-palmated and Least Sandpipers off the blind. Spectacular swarms of Tree Swallows at the beach.

47 species

Species Count
Canada Goose 4
Mallard 1
Mourning Dove 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Killdeer 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Sanderling 12
Least Sandpiper 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper 80
Laughing Gull 2
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Forster’s Tern 4
Royal Tern 2
Green Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Osprey 8
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 1
Bank Swallow 1
Tree Swallow 1000
Tree Swallow - Ruth Bergstrom

Tree Swallow photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Tree Swallow - Ruth Bergstrom

Tree Swallow photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Barn Swallow 20
Carolina Wren 3
European Starling 4
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Cedar Waxwing 1
House Sparrow 4
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
Field Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 10
Bobolink 30
Baltimore Oriole 2
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Common Grackle 2
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Prairie Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Indigo Bunting 1
New Jersey Audubon
New Jersey Audubon
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