Hidden Valley - Thursday, October 20th 2011

A very windy morninig kept the heads of pretty much all the small birds well below the parapet; however, a party of 10 Eastern Meadowlarks put a nice show and raptors disported themselves before us - especially those awesome Bald Eagles!
27 species

Double-crested Cormorant 3
Black Vulture 9
Turkey Vulture 12
Bald Eagle 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Herring Gull (American) 5
Great Black-backed Gull 14
Royal Tern 3
Mourning Dove 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 5
American Crow 45
Fish Crow 9
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin 10
Northern Mockingbird 2
Palm Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 40
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Eastern Meadowlark 10

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