A sunrise to die for, 100's of snow geese lifting up and flying overhead to land on the pond in front of us - it was a very good day at Curles Neck Farm. Location: Curles Neck Farm Observation date: Sunday, 11/14/10 Trip participants: 31 Notes: Trip leader: John Coe. Data contributed by Al Warfield, Betsy Saunders, Lewis Barnett Number of species: 70 Snow Goose 700 Ross's Goose 1 Canada Goose 300 Mute Swan X Gadwall 3 Northern Shoveler X Green-winged Teal X Ring-necked Duck X Lesser Scaup 2 Bufflehead 5 Hooded Merganser 3 Ruddy Duck 6 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 4 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 4 Northern Harrier 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 4 American Kestrel X American Coot 35 Killdeer 6 Dunlin 10 Bonaparte's Gull 3 Laughing Gull X Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull X Rock Pigeon X Mourning Dove 6 Belted Kingfisher X Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue Jay X American Crow 25 Fish Crow 1 Horned Lark 15 Carolina Chickadee 4 Carolina Wren 5 Winter Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet X Eastern Bluebird 7 Hermit Thrush X American Robin 20 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 20 American Pipit 1 Cedar Waxwing 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow X Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow X White-crowned Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Rusty Blackbird 1 Common Grackle X Brown-headed Cowbird X American Goldfinch X