Don Torino reports :  

    "Worth taking a trip on Discovery Trail. [On Tuesday I had] Kingfisher, 12 Bufflehead , Common Mergansers, Pintail, N. Shovelers, Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Gadwall."

  He also offered this Sunday report from Mill Creek Marsh:

  "Haven't been to Mill Creek in a while thought I would take a walk around the trail this morning: 40+ Green-winged Teal, 2 Hooded Mergansers, 1 Common Merganser, 1 Great Blue Heron, 3 Fox Sparrows,  Song Sparrows,  White-Throated Sparrows, 1 N. Cardinal (Male), 3 Mockingbirds, Ring-billed Gulls,
Mourning Doves."
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  Chuck Smart visited DeKorte Park this morning and reported the following:

224 Canvasbacks, 1 Mute Swan, 8 Ring-billed Gulls, 6 Pintails, a Belted Kingfisher, 8 Mallards, 2 Northern Harriers, 7 Black Ducks, 7 Red-breasted Mergansers,  2 Song Sparrows, 10 Herring Gulls, 1 Common Merganser, 4 Hooded Mergansers and 2 Bufflehead. (Thanks, Chuck!)

   Seen by others morning: Dark-morph Rough-legged Hawk by Disposal Road's Retention Pond area, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet at DeKorte's Lyndhurst Nature Reserve. No shrike reports yet today.

    The Northern Shrike was seen several times on Sunday, including during the Jets game — by a diehard Giants fan.

    We did not look for Mr. Shrike Monday because of the rain, but will try to get out today and update this post as needed.

    Above is a nifty (if a tad gruesome) 40-second video by Greg Grad of the shrike eating some prey that he has impaled on a tree.(Thanks, Greg!)

   We saw this accipiter perched by Harrier Meadow on Dec. 31. Do you know which kind?

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