Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Holly Lemieux
Temp: 60°F
Winds: SW 9 mph
Weather Conditions: mostly sunny
Purple Martins were circling above the martin boxes for the first time this season, just back from their wintering grounds in South America. A Cooper’s Hawk was bringing nesting material to a fork in a pine tree and a few Ospreys hunted over the ponds. Northern Gannets are still flying by along the coast along with skeins of scoters. Today it really felt like Spring had arrived!
47 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 4 |
| Mute Swan | 4 |
| Mallard | 4 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 1 |
| Surf Scoter | 22 |
| Black Scoter | 4 |
| Long-tailed Duck | 1 |
| Bufflehead | 4 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 3 |
 Red-breasted Merganser photo by Roger Horn |
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| Mourning Dove | 2 |
| American Oystercatcher | 2 |
| Laughing Gull | 8 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 1 |
| American Herring Gull | 5 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 1 |
| Royal Tern | 2 |
| Red-throated Loon | 2 |
| Northern Gannet | 30 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 55 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey | 6 |
 Osprey photo by Roger Horn |
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| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 3 |
| American Crow | 8 |
| Fish Crow | 18 |
 Fish Crow photo by Roger Horn |
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| Carolina Chickadee | 4 |
| Tree Swallow | 4 |
| Purple Martin | 3 |
 Purple Martin photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Purple Martin photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Purple Martin photo by Kathy Horn |
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| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 5 |
| European Starling | 3 |
| Gray Catbird | 1 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
| Hermit Thrush | 1 |
| American Robin | 1 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 3 |
| Field Sparrow | 3 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 6 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 28 |
| Common Grackle | 5 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| Pine Warbler | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 6 |
Blog post by Kathy & Roger Horn
