Gorgeous day to be out even if there weren’t a lot of birds.

The best sighting was the distant Red-necked Grebe from the beach at Alum Crk, scope views only, that I reported earlier today that was near 3 Horned Grebes with a Com Loon behind it so great size & shape comparisons. I looked for it from the galena side but no luck, only a Horned Grebe and a distant Com Loon. Big rafts of coots there.

At Oxbow, there were lots of Hooded Mergansers. No unusual gulls, just the expected Herring, Ring-billed & some Bonaparte’s. Only geese were Canada. One Great Blue Heron. One distant male Bufflehead & Pied-billed Grebe. Lots of crows, being rather vocal but didn’t seem to be mobbing anything.

A birder told me she had looked for the reported Snow Geese & Golden Plover but hadn’t seen them. I dipped as well, seeing only killdeer, about a dozen, from the paved trail near Galena & more Canadas. 

The dam at Hoover had v few gulls and a small group of mallards. Only raptor was a TV.

Passerines weren’t abundant either. I found a few White-thr Sparrows, heard some Song. Couple juncos. Only woodpeckers Downy & Red-bellied.

Happy turkey day.

Peggy Wang
Granville 
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