Registrar: Ellen Hoffman
Participants: 14
Weather: Low 80›s F, calm, sunny
Bird Species: 57
Undaunted by swarms of hungry mosquitoes, we persevered and managed to cover both the West Pond and the south end of the East Pond, plus the Raunt and Big John’s Pond. Despite the flooded conditions caused by recent heavy rains, we did manage to accumulate a few migrating shorebird sightings along with a good number of local breeding passerines and herons and terns.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall
Mallard
American Black Duck
Ruddy Duck
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Black Skimmer
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Willow Flycatcher
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Butterflies
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Orange Sulfur
Summer Azure
Monarch
Broad-winged Skipper
Odonates
Familiar Bluet
Black Saddlebags