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Sunset Beach: A Place for all Seasons – August 8, 2021

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Ruth Bergstrom, Eileen Mathers

Temp: 69° F

Winds: N 14 mph

Weather Conditions:  overcast

43 species

Species Count
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 4
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 1
Clapper Rail 5
Black-bellied Plover 2
Killdeer 6
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 20
Dunlin 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 13
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Laughing Gull 55
Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Least Tern 30
Forster’s Tern 12
Black Skimmer 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Brown Pelican 5
Great Egret 7
Snowy Egret 16
Little Blue Heron 2
Green Heron 3
Glossy Ibis 9
Osprey 4
Belted Kingfisher 2
Fish Crow 4
Purple Martin 18
Tree Swallow 14
Barn Swallow 10
Carolina Wren 6
European Starling 8
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
American Goldfinch 5
Red-winged Blackbird 45
Common Yellowthroat 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 2