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Iona in the Spring is such a great place to go birding!  The outer ponds had at least six male Yellow-headed Blackbirds, a fleeting glimpse of an American Bittern flying away, Ring-necked Ducks, Cinnamon Teals, Hooded Mergansers and Virginia Rails calling persistently.  Five species of swallow and Yellow-rumped Warblers everywhere!

Inner ponds were fairly quiet with a flock of mixed shorebirds that quickly left as the tide was falling and the mud flats were exposed.  Small numbers of American Pipits were on the NW Pond and Caspian Terns were in overflight. A small flock of Least Sandpipers were along the riverbank and an Osprey was downriver on a piling.

It was overcast for most of the trip and rained lightly for a bit part way through.

John Chandler

Species seen - 52

Pied-billed Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

American Bittern

Canada Goose

American Wigeon

Gadwall

Green-winged Teal

Mallard

Northern Pintail

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Ring-necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Bufflehead

Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Virginia Rail

American Coot

Killdeer

Wilson's Snipe

Greater Yellowlegs

Least Sandpiper

Dunlin

Glaucous-winged Gull

Caspian Tern

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

American Pipit

Marsh Wren

American Robin

Black-capped Chickadee

Northwestern Crow

European Starling

House Finch

American Goldfinch

Orange-crowned Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Spotted Towhee

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Red-winged Blackbird

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brown-headed Cowbird