This morning Bob Powell and I checked some favorite parts of Cowan Lake State Park. Lotus Trail was especially good. The mudflats at the end of the trail look just about perfect and there we saw:

8   Lesser Yellowlegs
3   Greater Yellowlegs
5   Spotted Sandpipers
1   Solitary Sandpiper
1   Pectoral Sandpiper
1   Least Sandpiper
3  Blue-winged Teal
2  Green-winged Teal
6  Mallards
2  Canada Geese with 2 Goslings - two more with young at East End of Cowan
1  Prothonotary Warbler - on territory
3  Rough-winged Swallows
1  Barn Swallow

Along the trail were:
3  American Redstart - they nest there
1  Yellow Warbler
1  Yellow-throated Warbler
2  Wood Thrush
2  Black-throated Green Warbler
3  Red-eyed Vireo
1  White-eyed Vireo
1  Northern Parula Warbler
3  House Wren

At the beach:  
2  Red-breasted Mergansers

At East end of Lake:
4  Great Egrets
83  Ring-billed Gulls
2    Great Blue Heron

The Red-shoulderd Hawk was not calling and we missed a Catbird or, amazingly, Killdeer.

Great Day Cheers,  Larry Gara

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