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First Noel

10,000 Birds

Our next stop added American Wigeon and more Double-crested (but no Great) Cormorants , as well as a better selection of land birds – most impressively, a flock of some 250 Common Grackles with a single Red-winged Blackbird (and Grackle with a few white tail feathers, fun to see but not really countable) mixed in.