Upon receipt of Chris' rare bird alert I grabbed binoculars & scope,
and I hoofed it toward the lake but on the Treman Marina side.
I had no luck with the Long-tailed Jaeger, but did find the following:

Canada Goose
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant - scores on the lake and the red lighthouse and piling cluster
Turkey Vulture - 2 separate over West Hill
Cooper's Hawk - 1 circling over West Hill
BROAD-WINGED HAWK - 1 immature circling & southbound over West Hill
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 circling & southbound with one of the Turkey Vultures
Killdeer - several on infield of northwestern Union Fields
Great Black-backed Gull - adults favoring tops of posts & pylons
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern - just one, over the Inlet well south of the lake
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift - a couple with swallows
Belted Kingfisher - about 6 in various places along the Inlet
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard
Eastern Phoebe  - 1 along northwest side of marina
Warbling Vireo - heard
Blue Jay - heard
American Crow
Tree Swallow - 1 among Barn Swallows
Bank Swallow - 1 among Barn Swallows
Barn Swallow - many over/around the marina
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse - family in my yard
Cedar Waxwing - several flycatching among the large cottonwoods northeast of marina
European Starling
Eastern Bluebird - 1 atop Osprey platform
American Robin
Gray Catbird - heard
Song Sparrow
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

--Dave Nutter

On Aug 26, 2010, at 05:26 AM, Christopher Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

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