Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 30°F
Winds: NE 9 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
With sun and a bright blue sky, everything looked beautiful today. A Red-breasted Nuthatch fed at the top of a cedar, Northern Gannets were sailing by fairly close over the bay, lots of scooters and Red-throated Loons flew past and a Red-shouldered Hawk landed atop a telephone pole nearby. A few Yellow-rumped Warblers were feeding in the cedars, ducks are abundant on all the ponds and a male Purple Finch perched briefly for us.
50 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 14 |
Mute Swan | 4 |
Northern Shoveler | 32 |
Gadwall | 70 |
American Wigeon | 17 |
Mallard | 30 |
American Black Duck | 4 |
Northern Pintail | 6 |
Green-winged Teal (American) | 12 |
Ring-necked Duck | 12 |
Greater/Lesser Scaup | 1 |
Surf Scoter | 11 |
Black Scoter | 23 |
Surf/Black Scoter | 10 |
Bufflehead | 22 |
Hooded Merganser | 10 |
Red-breasted Merganser | 12 |
Ruddy Duck | 6 |
Mourning Dove | 25 |
American Coot | 11 |
Killdeer | 1 |
Herring Gull | 16 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 23 |
Red-throated Loon | 8 |
Northern Gannet | 16 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 1 |
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 6 |
Black Vulture | 3 |
Turkey Vulture | 31 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2 |
Red-shouldered Hawk | 2 |
Red-tailed Hawk | 1 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 1 |
Blue Jay | 1 |
American Crow | 5 |
Carolina Chickadee | 3 |
Tufted Titmouse | 2 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 8 |
Northern Mockingbird | 4 |
Eastern Bluebird | 1 |
American Robin | 2 |
House Sparrow | 60 |
House Finch | 8 |
Purple Finch | 1 |
American Goldfinch | 10 |
White-throated Sparrow | 3 |
Song Sparrow | 2 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 120 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | 8 |
Northern Cardinal | 5 |