Our estimate was a total of 197,000 birds. Without any clouds for the day, that number could be quite a bit higher... 9 Purple Finches, 27 Eastern Bluebirds, 70 Cedar Waxwings, 54 American Crows, 105 Canadas Gese.

We haveseveral factors playing together here; less photosynthesis, less efficient useof water from the tree due to the salts, reduced numbers of big trees (in theXVIII century the cork trees covered aprox 20% of the area with severalthousands of centenary trees; today only a hundred of century-old trees remain,some estimated to be 500 years old), increasing numbers

A conservative estimate of 3 displaying/calling there last night. Good birding, Dylan Pedro Waterford CT

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Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 American Crow 6 Fish Crow 2 Tree Swallow 25 Estimated conservatively; difficult to count as they darted back and forth together.

I estimated at least 300 individuals, most were actually in the dunes walking back to my car. At times, they would cover various shrubs and swarm around the dunes. Here is the checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48696519 Time to look through my photos from morning flight and see if I missed anything!

Estimated 200 Ring-necked Ducks, Northern Pintail (1 drake), Wood Duck (5), Mallard and American Black Duck (combined 90), Hooded Merganser (2); Canada Goose (20+), Mute Swan (2), Great Blue Heron (1), Peregrine Falcon (2, the tiercel, and the female with a very full crop - studied on her perch for 20 minutes. May be a new female to the ridge).

The warbler break down (estimated from number and spacing of flight calls) was as follows: Ovenbird – 10; Northern waterthrush – 3; Black-and-white warbler – 5; American redstart – 4; Northern parula – 1; Black-throated blue warbler – 2; Palm warbler – 2; Pine warbler – 1; Yellow-rumped warbler – 3 This is an addition to myriad unidentified and unidentifiable

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