Birds seen along the wooded sections of the trails included 4 Eastern Wood-Pewees, a Great Crested Flycatcher, 6 Northern Flickers, a Red-eyed Vireo, 3 Northern House Wrens, 14 Gray Catbirds, and a Wood Thrush.
In the more open field areas at the top of the hill, I saw 3 Eastern Kingbirds, 3 Barn Swallows, a Brown Thrasher, a dozen Cedar Waxwings, 11 American Goldfinches, a Field Sparrow, and an Indigo Bunting.
Back at the parking lot, an adult Broad-winged Hawk circled overhead.
On the way down Route 33, I stopped at the Tatamy Exit retention pond, which only held 3 Least Sandpipers and a Spotted Sandpiper. The Hollo Road retention pond was still filled up from the previous rains.
Over at Green Pond, I found 21 species. I took the paved path to check the Farmersville Road pond and the back middle pond. In the Farmersville Road pond, three Great Egrets were feeding together in formation.
Also there in the near corner of the pond was a Greater Yellowlegs.
The back middle pond held 4 Green Herons, a Lesser Yellowlegs, one Solitary and one Spotted Sandpiper, plus the long-staying Little Blue Heron.
At Green Pond, I found 3 Double-crested Cormorants. One of them was perched fairly close, allowing me to get some pretty good photos.
One of the Great Egrets flew in and landed next to the cormorant.
Eventually, all 3 Great Egrets came in and perched together with the cormorant.
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