It was a chilly morning at Spring Valley, but it offered up an interesting
variety of birds, as usual.

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Yellow-Rumped Warbler (just one)
American Goldfinch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red Bellied Woodpecker
American Robin
Mourning Dove
Common Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Great Blue Heron
Carolina Chickadee
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (a few)
Blue Jay
Brown Thrasher
Field Sparrow
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Tufted Titmouse
Rufous-sided Towhee
Chipping Sparrow

heard but not seen - Black-throated Green Warbler, Northern Parula,
Prothonotary Warbler (in the swampy brushy area just north of the parking
lot at the south end--not the usual Prothonotary spot).

There was also an American Kestrel perching on power lines on 42 about a
mile north of the turnoff for Spring Valley.

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