Four Evening Grosbeaks visited the feeders briefly today. The male Oregon Junco returned and 3 Sandhill Cranes flew over about 2:30 flocks of Ring-billed Gulls, estimated to number over 1300 birds total, were moving south all afternoon as well a modest flight of hawks included: Northern Harrier 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 6 Turkey Vulture 21 Merlin 1 all were flying due south presumably to join the east/west shoreline flight further south in Durham Lakeridge and Reach Sts., just east of Uxbridge Geoff Carpentier www.avocetnatureservices.com