3 lifers! Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Eastern Phoebe -- in Orleans along river

So fun!

Also saw a duck that I can't quite identify -- had a solid rusty head with plain body, maybe a Redhead Duck?  But I can't be sure.  -- Oh, maybe a Green-winged Teal and I just was too far away to make out the other colour on the head?

And a sparrow-looking thing a defined rusty cap, and quite a rusty tinge to some of the body/wings -- couldn't figure out who that was.  Guessing either a Swamp Sparrow (would be a lifer) or a Chipping Sparrow.

And several wood ducks, including some who flew up into a tall tree.

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