Leaders: Bill Boyle, Karen Thompson, Mary Watkins
Temp: 80° F
Winds:
Weather Conditions:
Muggy at 80 degrees with a light wind. Highlight of the walk was the Brown Pelican fishing in the surf. Black Skimmers and Glossy Ibos were evident and the first Sanderling of the season.
41 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 42 |
Mallard | 38 |
Mourning Dove | 7 |
Chimney Swift | 2 |
American Oystercatcher | 4 |
Killdeer | 7 |
Sanderling | 1 |
Least Sandpiper | 12 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 26 |
Western Sandpiper | 1 |
Short-billed Dowitcher | 1 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 1 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 6 |
Laughing Gull | 22 |
Herring Gull | 3 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 6 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 16 |
Least Tern | 3 |
Common Tern | 1 |
Forster’s Tern | 1 |
Black Skimmer | 6 |
Brown Pelican | 1 |
Snowy Egret | 1 |
Glossy Ibis | 5 |
Osprey | 2 |
American Crow | 2 |
Fish Crow | 1 |
Purple Martin | 22 |
Tree Swallow | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 1 |
European Starling | 4 |
Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
House Sparrow | 2 |
American Goldfinch | 2 |
Field Sparrow | 3 |
Eastern Towhee | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 16 |
Common Grackle | 5 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 2 |