MerryLynn and I walked Bennington Lake on a cold windy morning on April 29. The weather was less than ideal, but the birding was outstanding! There were 8 black-necked stilts, 2 greater yellowlegs, and a Wilson's phalarope on the west side peninsula. New spring migrants included 7 orange crowned warblers, 4 Nashville warblers, 3 yellow warblers, 10 western kingbirds, 6 Hammond's flycatchers, 1 dusky flycatcher, 3 Brewer's sparrows, a chipping sparrow, a Savannah sparrow, 4 house wrens, 3 Vaux's swifts, and a barn swallow. Waterfowl included bufflehead, gadwall, mallard, redhead, ring-necked duck, shoveler, lesser scaup, cinnamon teal, canada geese with goslings, and coots. We had a total of 59 species for the morning. On the way home there were bank swallows in the cut on Berney Drive.
Ginger
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