Greetings,

Yesterday I spent a cold couple of hours walking my normal route through the 
woods of Hances Point’s south end. My goal was to find spring migrants; 
instead, I found winter birds. These included a surprising 16(!) Red-breasted 
Nuthatches, 1 Brown Creeper, 4 Hooded Mergansers, and 1 Red-breasted 
Merganser. The “spring” birds noted were two alternate-plumed Laughing Gulls 
noisily flying over the woods and a few Pine Warblers trying to call through the 
chilly morning air. 

North East Town Park yielded another Laughing Gull, a few Bonaparte’s Gulls, 
two eclipse-plumed Horned Grebes, and 14 Caspian Terns. Swallows here 
included Tree, Barn, and Northern Rough-winged. 

Later in the afternoon I had 8 Caspian Terns fishing in my cover (Hances 
Point).

Good Birding, 
Chris Starling