A sunny day at NQP this morning. A few "brisk" gusts but overall a good morning to be out with the birds. Good birds and surprise raccoons!

Welcome to some new folks this morning! Thank you for joining us.

Bill Williams kept the bird tally and entered it into eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology's bird data base. The list is below.

37 species!! Took a while to find that Bald Eagle but he finally appeared as we ended the walk! Whew!

Location:     New Quarter Park
Observation date:     2/27/10
Notes:     Overcast, 37 degrees, calm then northwest wind at 10-15 mph.  Three raccoons observed; one in a tree cavity, two in a separate tree.
Number of species:     37

Mallard     2
Lesser Scaup     4
Bufflehead     9
Double-crested Cormorant     26
Great Blue Heron     4
Black Vulture     6
Turkey Vulture     19
Osprey     1
Bald Eagle     1
Northern Harrier     2
Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)     1
Ring-billed Gull     3
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-headed Woodpecker     2
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     4
Downy Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2
Blue Jay     1
American Crow     10
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     8
White-breasted Nuthatch     2
Carolina Wren     3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     1
Eastern Bluebird     9
Hermit Thrush     1
American Robin     12
Northern Mockingbird     1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     3
White-throated Sparrow     3
Northern Cardinal     3
Red-winged Blackbird     18
Common Grackle     3
House Finch     1
American Goldfinch     2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)