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Sunset Beach: A Place for all Seasons – September 12, 2021

Leaders: Mary Watkins, Ruth Bergstrom

Temp: 69° F

Winds:  SW 17 mph

Weather Conditions:

35 species

Species Count
Mute Swan 2
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 2
Mourning Dove 2
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Sanderling 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Laughing Gull 30
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 18
Royal Tern 1
Double-crested Cormorant 13
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 15
Little Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 8
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Merlin 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 10
Fish Crow 2
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Wren 2
Northern Mockingbird 5
Field Sparrow 2
American Redstart 1