[CT Birds] Essex winter festival & train ride

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>From Bev Propen  2/15  Orange
 
My husband & I decided to go to Essex anyway for  Valentine's Day, even 
though it wasn't the official Eagle Festival.  There  was a nice group, but 
definitely not as many people as during the Eagle  Festival.  The shop keepers were 
saying they hoped that the Eagle Festival  would occur again next year.
We saw 2 Bald Eagles sitting on their nest across the  river from the CT. 
River Museum and 1 fly over Eagle skimming the  trees.  At the dock area by the 
museum were 16 mallards, 12 Canada Geese, 3  Graylag (barnyard) Geese-like on 
page 89 of Sibley's , about 50 Ring billed  gulls on the roof.
We took the Essex train ride and saw Red breasted mergansers,  black ducks,  
mute swans, turkey vultures soaring & a Great Blue heron  fly-by, a red tailed 
hawk sitting in a tree and several ducks I couldn't  identify because they 
were too far for my binoculars.
A nice afternoon.
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