World End Pond highlights, 8/26

[Kyle Wilmarth]

Spent a few hours on World End Pond last night, highlights included:

Sora - 1, https://flic.kr/p/KCfpZ8 - first one of the year at the pond, migrant?

Great Horned Owl - 2, https://flic.kr/p/KC4ER5 - I've been hearing these birds (begging screeches) the last couple of weeks but I was finally able to spot one at the south edge of the pond. The GHO sightings here seem to coincide with the building numbers of Wood Ducks, and wonder if they are the birds from the Methuen, MA rookery nearby?

Pectoral Sandpiper - 3, in flight after a Cooper's Hawk strafed the west edge flats

Common Nighthawk - 2, only

Marsh Wren - 3

Blue-winged Teal - 1

Green-winged Teal - 2

Virginia Rail - 2

Great Egret - 2, https://flic.kr/p/KCfzwe

Bobolink - 6, group flyover

Double-crested Cormorant - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Cooper's Hawk - 1

Green Heron - 1

Kyle Wilmarth

Plaistow, NH