Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Barry Hershfeld
Temp: 48°F
Winds: WNW 28 mph
Weather Conditions: sunny
Windy but warm would describe the weather for our walk this morning. Unaffected by the wind were a variety of ducks in the State Park ponds and a lone Tundra Swan that fed there as well. Two Killdeer huddled against the railroad ties at the edges of the parking lot and, no doubt, many songbirds were hunkered down out of sight. But a flock of beautiful Cedar Waxwings fed for a few minutes in a close cedar, Field Sparrows fed on the ground out of the wind and a Red-breasted Nuthatch was busy working the trunk of a deciduous tree back in the protected woods area. Last week’s bittern was nowhere in sight. Maybe next week….
39 species
| Species | Count |
| Mute Swan | 4 |
| Tundra Swan | 1 |
| Northern Shoveler | 14 |
| Gadwall | 18 |
| American Wigeon | 2 |
| Mallard | 14 |
| American Black Duck | 2 |
| Northern Pintail | 1 |
| Green-winged Teal (American) | 10 |
| Black Scoter | 2 |
| Surf/Black Scoter | 4 |
| Long-tailed Duck | 30 |
| Bufflehead | 9 |
| Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 1 |
| Killdeer | 2 |
| Dunlin | 29 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 2 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 43 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 13 |
| Red-throated Loon | 6 |
| Northern Gannet | 14 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 2 |
| Turkey Vulture | 4 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 2 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
 Red-breasted Nuthatch photo by Roger Horn |
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 Red-breasted Nuthatch photo by Kathy Horn |
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| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 5 |
| American Robin | 2 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 20 |
| House Finch | 1 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 4 |
| Common Grackle | 1 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 13 |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 |
