Leaders Group 1: Bill Boyle, Bill & MJ Roache
Leaders Group 2: Alan Crawford, Barry Hershfeld
Temp: 64° F
Winds:
Weather Conditions: A pleasant, partly cloudy morning, with a light breeze and temps starting in the low 60s. Ocean nearly flat.
CMBO “Birding the Meadows” walk, with eight participants from as far away as Sweden and Ontario.
Group 1
46 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 32 |
Mute Swan | 12 |
Mallard | 12 |
Mourning Dove | 8 |
Virginia Rail | 1 |
Semipalmated Plover | 2 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 39 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 20 |
Least Sandpiper | 3 |
Pectoral Sandpiper | 3 |
Laughing Gull | 3 |
Herring Gull | 8 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 3 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 16 |
Royal Tern | 12 |
Snowy Egret | 2 |
Great Egret | 3 |
White Ibis | 15 |
Black Vulture | 1 |
Turkey Vulture | 1 |
Osprey | 3 |
Northern Harrier | 1 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 6 |
Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
Northern Flicker | 7 |
American Kestrel | 6 |
Merlin | 2 |
Blue Jay | 4 |
American Crow | 2 |
Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
Barn Swallow | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 3 |
European Starling | 11 |
Gray Catbird | 4 |
Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
House Sparrow | 2 |
Song Sparrow | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 10 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 3 |
Common Grackle | 4 |
Northern Waterthrush | 1 |
Common Yellowthroat | 6 |
Yellow Warbler | 2 |
Prairie Warbler | 1 |
Northern Cardinal | 1 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |
Group 2
47 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 30 |
Mute Swan | 2 |
Mallard | 8 |
American Black Duck | 1 |
Mourning Dove | 15 |
Sora | 1 |
American Oystercatcher | 1 |
Killdeer | 2 |
Lesser Yellowlegs | 30 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 6 |
Sanderling | 8 |
Pectoral Sandpiper | 1 |
Semipalmated Sandpiper | 50 |
Laughing Gull | 2 |
Herring Gull | 8 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 40 |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 16 |
Caspian Tern | 1 |
Forster’s Tern | 1 |
Royal Tern | 6 |
Brown Pelican | 2 |
Snowy Egret | 5 |
Great Egret | 3 |
White Ibis | 12 |
Turkey Vulture | 2 |
Osprey | 5 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 6 |
Northern Flicker | 5 |
Blue Jay | 4 |
American Crow | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 4 |
Carolina Wren | 6 |
European Starling | 10 |
Gray Catbird | 8 |
Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
American Robin | 2 |
House Sparrow | 8 |
American Goldfinch | 4 |
Field Sparrow | 4 |
Bobolink | 16 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 8 |
Common Grackle | 2 |
Northern Waterthrush | 1 |
Common Yellowthroat | 4 |
Yellow Warbler | 1 |
Palm Warbler | 4 |
Northern Cardinal | 2 |