Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 50° F
Winds: SW 15 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
The star of this morning’s walk was undoubtedly the hidden-in-plain-sight American Bittern, standing stock-still along the edge of Bunker Pond in the morning sunlight. Although we ended up with a nice variety of duck species, duck numbers are way down at the park now unlike Yellow-rumped Warblers which were seldom out of sight or sound.
33 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 10 |
| Mute Swan | 3 |
| Wood Duck | 1 |
| Northern Shoveler | 4 |
| Gadwall | 15 |
| American Wigeon | 6 |
| Mallard | 38 |
| Northern Pintail | 4 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 6 |
| Black Scoter | 5 |
| Bufflehead | 13 |
| Ruddy Duck | 3 |
| Mourning Dove | 6 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 5 |
| Red-throated Loon | 4 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 2 |
| American Bittern | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 2 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 2 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 7 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
| American Robin | 91 |
| American Goldfinch | 1 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 4 |
| Song Sparrow | 3 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 8 |
| Common Grackle | 11 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 42 |
| Northern Cardinal | 1 |
