Bird Walk for all People - Thursday, September 12th, 2013

A pleasant day for a walk with good looks at most of the species.  Good looks at a pair of Cooper's Hawks perched on a fence and, thanks to a Snapping Turtle for delaying us, we were treated to a fantastic view of a Merlin's acrobatic flight in pursuit of a Least Sandpiper. The Merlin won. Leaders:  Warren Cairo, Patty Rourke, and Cindy Bamford.
38 species

Canada Goose  120
Mute Swan  36
Mallard  18
Northern Shoveler  8
Green-winged Teal  6
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  9
Snowy Egret  6
Little Blue Heron  3
Glossy Ibis  2
Osprey  2
Cooper's Hawk  2
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Sanderling  4
Least Sandpiper  12
Pectoral Sandpiper  8
Laughing Gull  45
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull  6
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  55
Common Tern  35
Forster's Tern  30
Royal Tern  4
Mourning Dove  5
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  1     Seen hunting over Bunker Pond and catching a Least Sandpiper
American Crow  15
Fish Crow  6
Tree Swallow  8
Barn Swallow  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  12
Cedar Waxwing  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20

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