7:30-10:00 am: Weather: cloudy, mild.  40 degrees at 7:30 am.  No breeze.  High tide 6:33 am
Harry Columbe, leader  Karen Caruso, recorder Observers: Emma Boyer, Cynthia Bravo, Regan Christian, Kirsten Enzinger, Lee Fisher, Elaine Frieble, Danalee Henkart, Dave Mozurkewich, Dot Mumford, Chris Swarth

29 species

Great Blue Heron 3
Canada Goose 1355
Green-winged Teal 16
American Black Duck 34
Mallard 16
Northern Pintail 55
Common Merganser 26
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 3
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 20
Gull species 150
Belted Kingfisher 1
Song Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 4

Observed, but not part of the Winter Waterbird count

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
American Crow
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren 2
Eastern Bluebird
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch

There were mixed flocks of blackbirds observed throughout the morning: numbers in the hundreds of thousands.  There were a few smaller flocks of all grackles, but for the most part we could hear the calls and the sound of wings, watch huge clouds of black birds rise and settle time after time.

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