Hello all
After a good nights sleep from the busy weekend I got going to check out the
local patch . The weather system dropped in a few good birds today . Below is a
list of what was found .
Greater Scaup -- 8
Bufflehead -- 2
Red - breasted Merganser -- 1
Ruddy Duck -- 4
Pied - billed Grebe -- 2
Great Blue Heron -- 3
Green Heron -- 1 STP
Black - crowned Night Heron -- 1 Dupont pond
Spotted Sandpiper -- 1
Solitary -- 3
Greater Yellowlegs -- 5 Smith's
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 10 Smith's
Bonaparte's Gull -- 3 STP
Herring Gull -- 5 one STP & 4 Swoope
Caspian Tern -- 13 McCune's Spring peak count
Forster's Tern -- 1 Stuarts Draft area
Eastern Kingbird -- 1 Swoope
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough - winged -- 81 thru out Augusta Co. most seen at STP
Cliff
Barn Swallow
All in all a good day of birding
Allen Larner
Staunton
