A high count (for me) of 117 Willets with both Common Terns, about a dozen,
and Forster's Terns, at least four, and Ring-billed, Herring, and a few
Bonaparte's Gulls rested on the rails of the boardwalk between bouts of
raucous flight. Paul Hurtado pointed out a single Caspian Tern overflight.
FOS Eastern Kingbird and Bank Swallow, one each, were numerically swamped by
hundreds of Tree Swallows and Barn Swallows. A loon called.

Red Admiral migration is taking its toll. Dozens of red's hit the cold water
and flopped hopelessly, literally swamped. If equal numbers were dropping
all over the reservoir, hundreds or thousands may have been stopped by the
cold.

Tom Bain
Delaware County

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