Leaders: Bill and MJ Roache, Alan Crawford, John McElroy, Ruth Bergstrom
Temp: 75° F
Winds: SW 8 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny but foggy at the shoreline
Birders were treated to flyover Tri-colored Herons and Great Egrets from the parking lot with additional Great Egrets throughout the walk. Least Terns numbers down but the fog hid most of the birds in flight.
51 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 6 |
Mallard | 3 |
Mourning Dove | 40 |
Chimney Swift | 3 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 |
American Oystercatcher | 2 |
Killdeer | 3 |
Semipalmated Plover | 10 |
Solitary Sandpiper | 1 |
Solitary Sandpiper photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Lesser Yellowlegs | 15 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 15 |
Ruddy Turnstone | 1 |
Sanderling | 6 |
Least Sandpiper | 25 |
Least Sandpiper photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 7 |
Laughing Gull | 15 |
Herring Gull | 7 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 12 |
Least Tern | 40 |
Forster’s Tern | 2 |
Royal Tern | 2 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 1 |
Tricolored Heron | 4 |
Snowy Egret | 4 |
Green Heron | 2 |
Green Heron photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Great Egret | 24 |
White Ibis | 10 |
Glossy Ibis | 6 |
Osprey | 8 |
Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
American Crow | 2 |
Tree Swallow | 1 |
Purple Martin | 4 |
Barn Swallow | 4 |
Carolina Wren | 3 |
European Starling | 8 |
Gray Catbird | 2 |
Gray Catbird photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
American Robin | 1 |
American Goldfinch | 2 |
Field Sparrow | 1 |
Song Sparrow | 2 |
Orchard Oriole | 3 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 6 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 25 |
Common Grackle | 2 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |