Leaders Group 1: Bill Roache, MJ Roache,
Leaders Group 2: Bill Boyle, Karen Thompson, Ruth Bergstrom, Barry Hershfeld
Temp: 78° F
Winds: 0 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny and breezy
Lovely day, 78 degrees, no wind, with nesting Least Terns and American Oystercatchers with chicks on the beach.
Group 1
31 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 20 |
Mute Swan | 3 |
Mallard | 3 |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 |
American Oystercatcher | 8 |
Killdeer | 2 |
Laughing Gull | 2 |
Herring Gull | 1 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 30 |
Black Skimmer | 0 |
Snowy Egret | 1 |
Great Egret | 1 |
Turkey Vulture | 2 |
Osprey | 1 |
Downy Woodpecker | 1 |
Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
White-eyed Vireo | 2 |
Fish Crow | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 4 |
Purple Martin | 8 |
Barn Swallow | 1 |
Carolina Wren | 2 |
European Starling | 4 |
Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
House Sparrow | 2 |
House Finch | 4 |
American Goldfinch | 2 |
Field Sparrow | 3 |
Common Grackle | 2 |
Prairie Warbler | 3 |
Northern Cardinal | 4 |
Indigo Bunting | 2 |
Group 2
38 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 26 |
Mute Swan | 3 |
Gadwall | 1 |
Mallard | 19 |
Mourning Dove | 2 |
American Oystercatcher | 6 |
American Oystercatcher photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
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American Oystercatcher photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
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Killdeer | 2 |
Short-billed Dowitcher | 1 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 10 |
Laughing Gull | 10 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 2 |
Least Tern | 45 |
Forster’s Tern | 2 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 2 |
Snowy Egret | 1 |
Great Egret | 1 |
Turkey Vulture | 7 |
Osprey | 3 |
Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 |
White-eyed Vireo | 1 |
American Crow | 2 |
Fish Crow | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 2 |
Purple Martin | 15 |
Barn Swallow | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 1 |
European Starling | 6 |
Northern Mockingbird | 1 |
House Sparrow | 1 |
House Finch | 3 |
Field Sparrow | 5 |
Song Sparrow | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 24 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 |
Common Grackle | 5 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 2 |