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Four of us did our monthly monitoring of Delta Park IBA on this beautiful sunny warm morning. The highlight of the day was a Caspian Tern flying across the mouth of the Winooski River, seen from the bicycle bridge. List included: 2 Pied-billed Grebe 65 D-c Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 1 Black-cr Night heron 1 Green Heron 10 Canada Goose (incl. chicks) 1 Mallard 9 Wood Duck (incl. chicks) 1 Ring-necked Duck vs. Scaup sp. 1 Sora 1 Killdeer 3 Spotted Sandpiper 16 Ring-billed Gull 1 Great Black-b Gull 1 Caspian Tern 1 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Barn Swallow 18 Tree Swallow 2 Blue Jay 2 Am. Crow 2 Black-c Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-br Nuthatch 10 Am. Robin 2 Cedar Waxwing 4 Starling 1 Red-eyed Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Northern Cardinal 10 Song Sparrow 31 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Common Grackle 1 Brown-h Cowbird 5 Baltimore Oriole 4 Am. Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow Carl Runge