Saturday January 11. Beautiful weather; temps hit 60 degrees. Cloudy star, giving way to sun in late morning.
Participants: Doug Boyd, Judy Marden, Dan Marquis, Joan & Stan Deorsey, Una & Brad Tuc, Tom Hayward, Steve Reed(leader & recorder)
Birds seen or heard:
American Crow
Rock Pigeon
European Starling
House Sparrow
Chickadee
Song Sparrow
Cardinal
Carolina Wren {heard]
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Purple Sandpiper
Common Eider
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Harlequin Duck
Canada Goose
Mallard
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Loon
Greater Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black Guillemot
Great Cormorant
Bird of the day…..Purple Sandpiper
Scanning the water from Marginal Way
Mallards
Male Common Eider
Immature Herring Gull
Female Long-tailed Duck (rarely seen out of the water)
Female Common Eider
male & female Black Scoters and two male Common Eiders