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Caspian Terns/ and few yard birds



Yesterday, 4/7, @ 5:15 PM Lee Van Malssen and I stopped for a minute at 
Crosswinds Marina at Jordan Lake.  Saw 2 Caspian Terns on the breakwater, 
with a Forster's Tern, and lots of DC Cormorants and Ring-billed Gulls.

One of the gulls was probably a Ring-billed, I am not the best gull ID'er,  
but it sure was very pale/whitish all over with very small amount of brown 
flecking on breast, and black on ends of wings and tail.

At home this AM, saw a Red-breasted Nuthatch in an oak by the house, 3 Pine 
Siskins, a Cooper's Hawk flew by the feeders and then perched nicely in a 
pine out front for a few minutes, and had a nice close up view of a Mourning 
Dove, and the orbital ring was so noticeably blue and pretty, don't remember 
the blue ever being so conspicuous before.   A few White-throated Sparrows 
still, but the Juncos seemed to have left.

Shelley Theye

Shelley Theye
N. Chatham County, NC
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