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Monday Jan. 9, afternoon:
Below Hoover Dam:
male northern shoveler - 1
mallards - XX
Canada geese - XX
ring-billed gulls - XXX
Area E:
pied-billed grebe - 1
double-crested cormorant - 1
Canada geese - XX
Red Bank Marina:
ring-billed gulls - XXX
herring gulls - 4
Bonaparte's gulls - 9
Hoover Meadows Nature Preserve:
American tree sparrows - XX
northern mockingbird - 1
house sparrows - XX
Mudhen Marsh Nature Preserve:
white-throated sparrows - about 10
downy woodpeckers - 2
red-bellied woodpeckers - 2
Carolina chickadees - X
tufted titmouse - X
the Galena boardwalk:
mallards - 6
hooded mergansers - 3
Canada geese - XX
And the most extraordinary experience: I heard the ice sing. For birders, imagine a soft, muted but constant chorus of winter sparrows in a brush pile, with the lisping winter call of brown creepers punctuated by winter calls of golden-crowned kinglets. Because my ears are better than my eyes, I depend so much on sound to guide my birding, and this was a totally new experience for me, to hear the ice sing.
Margaret Bowman
Newark, OH
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