F-August 25th

Sixteen birders drove to The Perth Wetlands in Mitchell in rainy and windy weather. Conditions cleared upon arrival and there most of us viewed a good variety of shore birds as listed below. After lunch, we travelled to The Hullett Wildlife Area near Clinton.

Trip Leader: Ralph Knowles

Participants: Fred , Judy and Jim , Margaret, Doug, James , Mike and Helen,  Kim and Brendan , Liz, Lionel, Judith , Nora , Joy .

On Route 1

Mitchell Lagoons 2

Hullett Wildlife Area 3

Pied-billed Grebe 3

. Double-crested Cormorant 3

. Great Blue Heron 1

. Great Egret 2 (tagged green 30R)

. Canada Goose 1

. Wood Duck 2

. Mallard 2

. Blue-winged Teal 2

. American Green-winged Teal 2

. Common Merganser 3

. Turkey Vulture 1

. Northern Harrier 3

. Cooper's Hawk 3

. Red-tailed Hawk 1 2

. Osprey 1

. American Kestrel 1

. Wild Turkey 1

. American Golden Plover 2

. Semipalmated Plover 2

. Killdeer 2

. Greater Yellowlegs 2

. Lesser Yellowlegs 2

. Solitary Sandpiper 3

. Pectoral Sandpiper 2

. Baird's Sandpiper 2

. Semipalmated Sandpiper 2

. Least Sandpiper 2

. Wison's Snipe 2

* Wilson's Phalarope 2

. Ring-billed Gull 1

. Mourning Dove 1

. Rock Pigeon 1

. Chimney Swift 2

. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2

. Belted Kingfisher 3

. Northern Flicker 3

. American Crow 1

. N Rough-winged Swallow 2

. Bank Swallow 2

. Tree Swallow 1

. Cliff Swallow 2

. Barn Swallow 2

* Eastern Kingbird 1

. American Robin 3

. European Starling 1

. Cedar Waxwing 3

* American Goldfinch 1

. Savannah Sparrow 2

. Song Sparrow 2

* Swamp Sparrow 2

. Brown-headed Cowbird 2

. Red-winged Blackbird 2

. Common Grackle 1

* Indigo Bunting 2

Total species 54