Techny Basin & Techny North Wednesday 8-19-26

[Al Stokie]

Hello Bird People,

Still can't leave home early as I must let the workers in at about 8 am.
So I only went to the two Techny's today. Techny Basin remains flooded
(it's been flooded all Summer) & now Techny North is also flooded
having lost the little bit of mudflat it had yesterday.

Techny Basin (8:55-10 am) (Continues to be a good place for Herons & Egrets)

D.C. Cormorant (1)
Great Blue Heron (6)
Great Egret (5)
Green Heron (3)
Black Crowned Night Heron (1-AD plus 2 fly-bys)
Mallard (11)
Ring Billed Gull (5, by the Aldi)
Caspian Tern (1, hunting)
Rock Pigeon (~15) & Mourning Dove (3)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (1)
Flicker (1)
Eastern Kingbird (2)
Blue Jay (H-1)
Barn Swallow (12)
Robin (3)
Starling (1)
Cardinal (H-1)
Red Wings (3 young ones)
Grackle (1)
Goldfinch (4)

Techny North (10:15-10:55 am)

D.C. Cormorant (1)
Great Blue Heron (1)
Canada Goose (25)
Mallard (2)
Spotted Sandpiper (on the shoreline rocks)
Osprey (2)
Red Tailed Hawk (4, soaring together)
Kestrel (2)
Kingfisher (1)
Crow (H-1)
Catbird (H-1)
Cardinal (H-1)
Eastern Meadowlark (1)
Goldfinch (1)

So 21 species at Techny Basin & 14 at Techny North for a day's total of 30.
Bird-Of-The-Day will be the adult Black Crowned Night Heron &
Runners-Up to the Ospreys & Kestrels.

License Plate Of The Day to one from Vermont seen at the Jewel in Niles.

Al Stokie
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