On my way into Herrick's Cove this afternoon, I met Eric Masterson, who'd
been out canoeing with his camera.  He told me about a pair of Black Terns
that had been hanging out all afternoon; he also showed me photos of Dunlin
and Short-billed Dowitcher that had been on the mud flats before the dam
gates at Bellows Falls were closed -- once the water level came up, the
shorebirds flew off.

However, the Black Terns remained over the marshes -- especially on the
south shore of the Williams -- until I left at sunset; they never came to
the wooded shores, so I couldn't get quality photos for flickr.

Other species noted during my 3h30m at Herrick:
1 - Bald Eagle (sat in a tree on the islet at the river's mouth)
2 - Great blue heron -- flew in around 7:30
13 - Catbird
8 - Bob-O-Link, displaying in the meadows
2 - Blue jay
2 - Crow
1 - Common raven
1 - Belted Kingfisher
3 - Robin
14 - Yellow warbler (mostly males)
1 - Prairie warbler
8 - Baltimore oriole (I love their colors and their songs)
6 - Canada geese (1 was very noisy all evening long)
4 - Grackles
1 - Wood duck
4 - Mallard
7 - Warbling vireo 
2 - Veery (after dusk)
13 - Cedar waxwing (yellow on breast)
2 - Double-crested cormorants (flew overhead)
12+ Common yellowthroat
8 - Eastern kingbird
3 - Downy woodpeckers
3 - Yellow-bellied sapsuckers
1 - Red-bellied woodpecker (call matched iBird)
4 - Song sparrow
1 - American tree sparrow (clear view of the blotch on the breast)
40+ Tree sparrows
40+ Red-winged blackbirds
20+ Marsh wrens

Regards & Good birding,
Bob Heitzman
WRJ

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