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["Clint Good" <clintgood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello birders,
 

On a long glorious ramble through the woods, fields, and stream course of my
neighborhood this morning, one of the first sounds I heard amidst the dawn
chorus was a WILD TURKEY gobbling.  I heard the first CHIPPING SPARROWS of
spring (what a sweet sound the first Chipping Sparrow is!).  A small V of
TUNDRA SWANS flew high overhead with their slow elegant wingbeats, and a row
of D-C CORMORANTS made a beeline.  Other late winter birds I was happy to
find were a singing WINTER WREN and a HERMIT THRUSH, as well as a
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, which I usually don't see in my local patch.  I
thought the gathering flocks of WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS and JUNCOS of 2 days
ago were gone, but found a large flock of both near the end of my walk.
Both GOLDEN-CROWNED and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS were seen, and on the wooded
pond were several RING-NECKED DUCKS, WOOD DUCKS, 6 HOODED MERGANSERS, all
female (I thought this was odd-where were the males?), a KINGFISHER, and 2
GREAT BLUE HERONS.  I heard at least 8 EASTERN PHOEBES.  And last but not
least, two separate Red Foxes came trotting across the meadow, and later I
came upon one curled up under a tree asleep!  It doesn't get any better than
this! (wait, yes it does!)

 

See you on the trails,

Mary Ann Good



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