Palm and Fish

Pre-Dawn, the crows were flying away from
roost in dispersed flocks. All the larger groups seemed to be almost exclusively Fish Crow with American crows in ones and twos.
On the lake 5 and then later 6 Hooded Merganser Inc 2 males where less active than the other morning - perhaps they display actively when they first arrive on site?
Passerines were pretty quiet until I found a small party in tree along the rail-track just past the Magic Spot. A skulking, but ultimately well seen, yellow Palm Warbler was in a small group of ruby-crowned kinglets and a yellow-rumped warbler. The warblers flew over to the stream-side trees, leaving the Kinglets.