Hi All. Pretty quiet this morning while I was there. 14 species that I was
able to identify and a handful of little birds in trees and bushes I
couldn't.

Big JOY of the day for me along the lines of Connie's essay. A birder last
week asked me, at the fill, if I had seen the Meadowlark. No, I hadn't. Then
I heard talk of them on this board. My hope this morning was all Meadowlark.
( will see it, won't see it) As I was walking from that first pond from the
parking lot and the path turns and parallels the canal my hopes rose. I kept
walking and just before the main pond to my left some birds flew from the
grasses to the top of that squiggely tree. All the branches are curley que.
3 Meadowlarks at the top of the tree! They stayed for a long time and gave
other birders joy as well. No singing for me though.

Pied Billed Grebe
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Hawk-huge and unidentified no white head wings flat out while flying
American Coot
Meadowlark
Red-Winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark

Randy Joseph
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