I was scouting for Saturday's RBA trip and as expected there were many birds to look through. The mudflat is moving east so AM from Towpath is starting to look good. I'm not ready for Dunlin yet! Mike
Help from Kevin Griffith and a field trip group 44 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 30 Trumpeter Swan 3 Wood Duck 6 Gadwall 2 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 20 Northern Shoveler 35 first flocks arriving here and at Benning Marsh. up from a single bird last weekend. Green-winged Teal 80 Double-crested Cormorant 22 Great Blue Heron 15 Great Egret 4 Green Heron 2 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 Common Gallinule 4 Sandhill Crane 4 Black-bellied Plover 1 Killdeer 20 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 210 Semipalmated Sandpiper 40 Least Sandpiper 220 White-rumped Sandpiper 8 Baird's Sandpiper 3 fresh juvenile plumage. always on the mud with Leasts Pectoral Sandpiper 240 Dunlin 1 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 molting adults Long-billed Dowitcher 4 2 already in full basic Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 4 Wilson's Phalarope 1 juvenile Ring-billed Gull 30 Caspian Tern 20 Mourning Dove 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 immature trying to catch anything especially a juvenile Caspian Tern Eastern Phoebe 1 Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow X European Starling X Cedar Waxwing 12 Common Yellowthroat 1 Song Sparrow 2 Bobolink 20 flying overhead regularly Red-winged Blackbird X This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org <http://ebird.org/> ) ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5219 - Release Date: 08/23/12 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
