[breffni]

Over a day and a half end June...hot, stifling, humid, glare, full of bugs (notably large ones with bright green eyes and sharp teeth) - more than 70 sweaty species and a possible case of lime disease (also bottle nose dolphins, various bats, chipmonks, white tail deer, cotton tail rabbit, 4 species of toad):


Glossy ibis
Willet
Black neck stilt
Virginia rail
Great white egret
Snowy egret
Great blue heron
Black crown night heron
Piping plover
Dunlin
Semi-palmated sandpiper
American avocet
Killdeer
Short bill dowager
Lesser yellowlegs
American oystercatcher
Double crested cormorant
Mute swan
Mallard duck
Black duck
Gadwall
Canada goose
Great black backed gull
Herring gull
Ring-bill gull
Laughing gull
Foresters tern
Least tern
Skimmer
Red wing blackbird
Ruby throat hummer
Fish crow
Boat tail grackle
Grackle
Seaside sparrow
Song sparrow
Wood thrush
Indigo bunting
Eastern kingbird
Bluebird
House wren
Marsh wren
American goldfinch
House finch
Downy woodpecker
Red belly woodpecker
Northern flicker
Purple martin
Bank swallow
Barn swallow
Tree swallow
Chimney swift
Eastern phoebe
Common yellowthroat
Morning dove
Cardinal
White-breasted nuthatch
Tufted titmouse
Black-capped chickadee
American robin
Baltimore oriole
Orchard oriole
Starling
Feral pigeon
American crow
Osprey
Red tail hawk
Northern harrier
Black vulture
Bald eagle
Turkey vulture
Wild turkey