Ok that made me laugh multiple times. Well done and great birds!
Dan Mullarkey
Gilford
On Sat, Nov 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM 'Kurk Dorsey' via NHBirds <
<nhbirds...> wrote:
> Birders
> I'm very excited that Strafford County is destined to finish in the top 10
> once again in the November County Challenge! How many other counties can
> say that?
>
> James Cornelius and I added a few things to the county list, just to help
> cement our county's on-going dominance over all those other counties
> (Yoknapatawpha County for instance). We took two newish birders to Adams
> Point this morning, where the highlight was a group of 5 Sandhill Cranes
> flying overhead, presumably to Sand County (another one we're beating! Take
> that Aldo Leopold!), followed shortly by two male Towhees. Red-throated
> Loon, Fox Sparrow, and Woodcock were also great finds by Keely and James.
> Three seals also put in an appearance, in case we get bonus points for
> mammals. We had a quick look at a warbler that I'm pretty sure was a
> Prairie, but we don't need to include probable birds to dominate Bloom
> County, even if it gets to count a talking penguin.
>
> I made a few other stops afterwards and picked up a few nice finds for the
> day, including 3 Hooded Mergansers at the Durham Town landing (I checked
> carefully to make sure that they weren't actually Hooded Warblers), and a
> huge flock of Horned Larks, well over 200 with their tiny Vikings helmets,
> with about 20 Snow Buntings mixed in, at Moore Fields. For those who go to
> Moore Fields regularly, there was someone in the blind at the back of the
> field, who waved an orange flag at me as I came around the corner, so I
> yelled "who-dey" since I assumed it was a fellow Bengals fan. Perhaps they
> were just signaling that they had an Orange-crowned Warbler? My last
> species was a Barred Owl, calling on the town side of the Woodridge. Still
> waiting for my first dis-barred owl of the month.
>
> Kurk Dorsey
> Durham
>
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