Ten people went on the Friends of Dyke Marsh bird walk this morning at 8 am.
The tide has high at the start and was still fairly high at the end (11.15 am)
-- low tide was expected at only 2.46 pm. Not disastrously warm, but quite
muggy. 47 bird species encountered -- nothing unexpected. List follows in old
order -- numbers only for selected species:
DC Cormorant (12 incl. couple of imm)
Great Blue Heron (several)
Great Egret (4)
Canada Goose (40)
Mallard (lots, incl. imm)
Osprey (at least 12)
Killdeer (20)
Greater Yellowlegs (1)
Lesser Yellowlegs (12)
Spotted Sandpiper (3 - one fully spotted)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (1)
Least Sandpiper (6)
Laughing Gull (12)
Ring-billed Gull (00s)
Great Black-backed Gull (8)
Caspian Tern (1)
Forster's Tern (50-100)
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (6)
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Marsh Wren (2)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Stephen Eccles
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