Birding in the rain: CBA field trip Saturday, August 28

Saturday morning looked more like a field trip rain-out than a good day for birding. If I had had my druthers I would have stayed home in bed but having the title of CBA Field Trip Coordinator comes with a few responsibilities and showing up to field trips is one of them. As I drove to the meeting spot I thought I would probably just be turning around since, "no one else would be crazy enough to go birding in this weather," but instead I was surprised by 13 enthusiastic birders. It's a good thing they seemed to know more than I did about the birding conditions as we had a good day of birding on a "not hot" morning and got wet more from perspiration than rain. Here is the, probably incomplete, list of birds seen:

Blakeley Island parking area A:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Common Moorhen
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Empidonax sp.
Great Crested Flycatcher
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Yellow Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Lark Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole

Blakeley Island parking area B:

Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Empidonax sp.
Yellow Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird

Battleship Park:

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Clapper Rail
Killdeer