For their latest outing, Birding Group members headed to Royston to check out the seashore from the Trent River Estuary to the boat hulks off Hilton Road. The tide was down a fair bit, so boots were welcome for walking down the intertidal area for a closer look at distant birds. It was a crisp sunny day so, all in all, a pleasant morning was spent counting up the species sighted. Twenty-four was our total: Dark-eyed Juncos, Golden-crowned Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows, Spotted Towhees, Bald Eagle, Belted Kingfishers, Great Blue Herons, Killdeer, Dunlins, Black-bellied Plovers, gulls, Mallards, American Wigeons, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Mergansers, Red-breasted Mergansers, Red-necked Grebes, Black Scoter, White-winged Scoters, Surf Scoters, Common Goldeneyes, Northern Pintails, Common Loon and American Crows.
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