Out of state update, but some good birds.

The Kennard Elementary School students on the Steiner Merlins World Series 
of Birding team ventured to Port Mahon and Bombay Hook this morning and 
tallied 67 species from 9:30 till 1:00.   The fog lifted around 9:30 which 
is just about when they got to Port Mahon.  Bayside yielded little but the 
pond by the observation tower (if you can call it that) yielded a thousand 
or so ducks.  Highlights were a Common and Hooded Merganser plus 10 other 
duck species.  There were several Great Egrets plus Pied Billed and Horned 
Grebe.

Bombay Hook highlights were Ring-necked Pheasants calling, 8 Avocets, 4 
Little Blue Herons, Snowy and Great Egrets, Gnatcatchers, Glossy Ibis, and 
one Black Crowned Night Heron.  The tide was very high bayside.  The pools 
had Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs and Dunlin.

Jim Wilson
Queenstown