Greetings!
Things are starting to happen pretty fast now!! Alex Hickey and I stopped
out at Brookville Lake Friday afternoon and found a Caspian Tern at
Sagamore. Bill Buskirk found two by Sunday as well as a Forster's
Tern.  There were over 150 DC Cormorants at Acton this morning, but lots of
fishing boats arriving--what happened to our low water? Blue-gray
Gnatcatchers are now pretty common--nearly a dozen Cliff Swallows were at
Dunlapsville Friday with class.  5 Ospreys were circling the platform off
Hwy 44 outside Liberty on Friday--the resident pair with three
visitors.  We banded 16 birds below the dam Sat including Swamp, Field
(including a bird banded April 19 last year!), White-throated (including a
bird banded May 12 last year), and Song Sparrows; two Brown Thrashers; and
a female Eastern Phoebe.
The Chili Challenge is also starting to heat up, 134 species have been seen
combined by all teams!  Team One (that's us) are still in the lead with 122
species, followed closely by Team 5 (the Michael's and Eshbaughs) with
116.  See totals attached!
Tonight we'll do our annual Spring Primer at Audubon--it might be better
subtitled Bird Butts and Songs!!  Hope to see you tonight!!
Dave