Annual Spring Migration Count

Hello Everyone
Today was the Annual Spring Migration Count. Here is some of my sightings for the day...



Spring Migration Count
2010-05-08

Today was overcast and raining.
Gooseberry Cove Sightings
15 Adult Northern Gannets
10 Eider Ducks
Peajack
1 Song Sparrow
2 Robins
5 Black-capped Chickadees
2 Downy Woodpeckers
1 Black and White Warbler
Heard a Grouse drumming

Towards the path to the top of the new lane
Lively\s Pond
2 Black Ducks
2 Common Grackles (sighted one in amongst the alders and it looked like it was at a nest. As I approached it flew away but the grackles would call back and forth to one another and stayed relatively close.)
Near the horse fence at the top of new lane
2 Catbirds chattering noisily
2 Cock Pheasants
4 Black-capped Chickadees
1 American Goldfinch
2 Robins
2 Tree Swallows
At the Ball Field
1 Cock pheasant
New Lane
2 Robins
30 American Goldfinches
3 Common Grackles
1 Mourning Dove
At Dawns feeder
1 female Purple Finch
1 White-throated Sparrow

As for flower sightings
White and Blue Violets, Mountain-fly Honeysuckle, Gooseberry, Rhodora, Forget-me-nots, wild pear, ground ivy, strawberry blossoms, and blueberry blossoms.