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Recent reports from Shirley Farm Rd

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

August 23

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
3Mourning Dove
1Black-bellied Plover
2Semipalmated Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Least Sandpiper
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
6Laughing Gull
1Wood Stork
1Little Blue Heron
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
2Bald Eagle
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Barn Swallow
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Cardinal
2Blue Grosbeak
1Canada Goose
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Bank Swallow

August 22

1Short-billed Dowitcher
2Stilt Sandpiper
3White-rumped Sandpiper
8Western Sandpiper
2Caspian Tern
7Forster's Tern
15White Ibis
3Snowy Egret
1Osprey
1Blue Jay
17Purple Martin
4Cliff Swallow

August 20

1Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Western Cattle-Egret
40Red-winged Blackbird
1Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron