Visiting the Mercer Wildlife Area this morning and evening, we found the
following:
Great Egrets X
Bald Eagle Ad 2
Red tail Hawks 2
Killdeer 50+
Semipalmated Sandpipers XX
L Yellowlegs
Female Bobolink!!
Kingbirds staging about 20
Great Blue Herons (many LESS than have been present all summer)
Canada geese XXX ++
Mallards XX
Bluewing Teal X
Tree & Bank Swallows XXXXXX
Double crested cormorants :-(
Ringbilled Gulls XX
Soft shell turtle
Monarch butterflies XXXX
Starlings by the 1000s

And this weekend was the boat races (Governors Cup) - if you have never been
here for that !!!!  you are missing a good weekend!!


Jill Bowers

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