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Sunset Beach: A Place for all Seasons – July 11, 2021

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Eileen Mathers, Ruth Bergstrom, Bernie Hodgdon

Temp: 73° F

Winds: SSW 6 mph

Weather Conditions:

54 species

Species Count
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 8
American Black Duck 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 6
Mourning Dove 10
Clapper Rail 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Least Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Laughing Gull 82
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Least Tern 18
Common Tern 1
Forster’s Tern 12
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Brown Pelican 5
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 12
Little Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 7
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1
Fish Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 1
Purple Martin 15
Barn Swallow 9
Carolina Wren 2
European Starling 5
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Robin 2
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 1
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 6
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 4