Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Barrie Hershfeld
Temp: 55°F
Winds: SW 16mph
Weather Conditions: partly cloudy
As we rounded Bunker Pond, coming down off the first dune crossing, an American Bittern flew into view and landed on the pond edge. Not far away was a second bittern and the two interacted briefly as we watched. Yellow-rumped Warblers continue in good numbers, and we were seldom out of hearing of their flat chip notes. Two Blue-winged Teal and three Lesser Scaup were among the sixteen species of ducks present.
54 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 10 |
| Mute Swan | 6 |
| Tundra Swan | 5 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 2 |
 Blue-winged Teal photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Blue-winged Teal photo by Kathy Horn |
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 Blue-winged Teal photo by Kathy Horn |
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| Northern Shoveler | 20 |
 Northern Shoveler photo by Kathy Horn |
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| Gadwall | 28 |
| American Wigeon | 10 |
| Mallard | 25 |
 Mallard photo by Roger Horn |
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| American Black Duck | 30 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 12 |
| Lesser Scaup | 3 |
| Surf Scoter | 20 |
| Black Scoter | 60 |
| Long-tailed Duck | 8 |
| Bufflehead | 7 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 4 |
| Ruddy Duck | 5 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 2 |
| Mourning Dove | 1 |
| American Coot | 16 |
| Sanderling | 13 |
| Bonaparte’s Gull | 8 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 10 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 10 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 29 |
| Red-throated Loon | 5 |
| Northern Gannet | 3 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 5 |
| American Bittern | 2 |
 American Bittern photo by Roger Horn |
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 American Bittern photo by Roger Horn |
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 American Bittern photo by Roger Horn |
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| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 1 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 5 |
| American Crow | 3 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 3 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 10 |
| European Starling | 120 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 4 |
| American Robin | 30 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 70 |
| American Goldfinch | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 5 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 4 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 3 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 9 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 80 |
| Northern Cardinal | 2 |
