JBWR 7/10

A 2 hour walk around the West Pond produced 40 species. Spotted Sandpiper and 3 Short-billed Dowitchers were an indication that shorebirds are starting to return from their breeding ground (or that some never made it that far.) A flock of peeps swirled around the pond; some can tell what kind of sandpipers they are in flight--I'm not one of those people.
Canada Goose  150
Mute Swan  7
Gadwall  3
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  50
Greater Scaup  2    Pair sitting on bank, seen from Bench 5
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  7
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1 Juvenile
Glossy Ibis  5
Osprey  8
American Oystercatcher  1
Spotted Sandpiper  1
peep sp.  50
Short-billed Dowitcher  3
Laughing Gull  10
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  50
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Forster's Tern  1
American Crow  3
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  7
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Marsh Wren  2
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  10
Northern Mockingbird  1
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  5
Yellow Warbler  3
Common Yellowthroat  6
Eastern Towhee  3
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  1
Boat-tailed Grackle  4
American Goldfinch  1