10/12 - Farmington, Batterson Pond -- 2 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 2 OSPREY.
Also on and about the water: canada geese, pied-billed grebes, several kingfishers, 1 ring-billed gull, about 8 ruddy ducks, assorted mallards, cormorants.
Along the road to the beach, there is a nice tangle of shrubbery and old trees, with bittersweet, wild grapes, poison ivy, all loaded with fruit. Today, this area attracted abundant yellow-rumped warblers, along with several ruby-crowned kinglets, assorted sparrows (WT, chipping, song), catbirds, red-bellied woodpecker, flicker, robins, jays, and even a lone phoebe hawking insects. Didn't see any other thrushes, though I looked. A cooper's hawk and a crow tolerated each other in a nearby dead tree.
At our backyard suet feeder, we have had a pair of RB nuthatches every day, and the downy woodpeckers which have fed together quite sociably all summer have been arguing over suet rights. The juncos and WT sparrows arrived in our yard yesterday.
Sarah
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