Eight birders went to Oyster River Nature Park and the southern half of the Pub to Pub Trail this morning. Highlights were a Northern Shoveler in the river mouth and a Merlin chasing a gull, trying to get it to drop its food.
The following 30 species were seen or heard:
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Common Merganser
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Merlin
Northwestern Crow
Purple Martin
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pacific Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Spotted Towhee
