Leslie St. Spit today - besides the Hawk Owl

[Anonymous]

Well it is too hard to beat Alfred Adamo's Hawk Owl find today so I won't even try but we did find some other birds besides the ones mentioned in Alfred's post.
 
 22 Waterfowl species including 2 Red-throated Loons, 5 Common Loons, Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, American Wigeons, Ring-necked Ducks, many Bufflehead, and all 3 Mergansers including 200+ Hooded Mergansers, Great Blue Herons, Northern Harriers, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Flicker, both Kinglets, American Pipits, 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers, Tree and White-throated Sparrows and an Eastern Meadowlark.
 
 We were doing okay until the Hawk Owl and then we ended the day with a bang, so to speak.
 
Again - If you go down there tomorrow and find the Hawk Owl please try not to harass it as others will be coming after you to see it. The Stoney Creek Hawk Owl this past winter comes to mind.

[Axeman]

I"m not likely able to make way over there...but I'd sure love to see a pic....

[Andrew McKinley]

Hi everyone,
Just to add a footnote to Norm's list, if you want to see the Greater and Lesser Scaup up close there were several of both species right beside the red bridge yesterday, permitting a very close viewing and comparison of the two species. This was helpful to me because I had never seen the two together so close....

[Andrew McKinley]

Oh, and I forgot, there were also White Winged Crossbills in around the marina and reports of pine siskins, though I did not see them myself. Hugh Currie and I also saw two swallows pass over the baselands on our way into the Hawk Owl. They MAY have been migrating cave swallows, though we didn't get a positive ID.