Ted Floyd wrote:
> Hello, BirdChatters.
>
> I've been enjoying the discussion about birding in August. ... Sure,
> it's awesome in southeastern Arizona, as several BirdChatters have
> noted. But it's truly exciting pretty much everywhere across the
> Lower 48.
...
> My guess is there are more birds in North America in August than in
> any other month of the year.
But not at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California - a bird sanctuary for
the last century or so and my favorite stomping grounds. In August, it
can offer Canada Geese, and Mallards, and more Canada Geese - though not
quite so many as in July, as a lot of the geese that came in on molt
migration have departed.
By early November, on the other hand, the lake will host a couple of
dozen species, including both goldeneyes, half a dozen grebes, and
assorted diving and dabbling ducks that summer in and near the Arctic....
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