I spent dawn to noon at Brookville Lake.  Cold and windy and lots of
duck hunters, but an exciting day none the less.  The mud flats at
Dunlapsville Causeway continue to be a hot spot.  63 species,
highlights:

Common Loon 5
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Horned Grebe 6
Great Blue Heron 47
Black Vulture 6 (Hanna Creek ramp)
Snow Goose 3 (white form)
Canada Goose 425
Gadwall 9
Mallard 12 (low)
Northern Pintail 1
Canvasback 2
Redhead 4
GREATER SCAUP 7
Lesser Scaup 2
SURF SCOTER 2 (imm/female, flybys)
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 3 (flybys)
Hooded Merganser 84
Bald Eagle 3 (1 1st, 1 2nd, 1 ad)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
American Coot 315
SANDHILL CRANE 344 (night roost Dunlaspville)
Killdeer 325 (all on mud flats)
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 1 (faint buff wash across breast, long wing
extension, dark rump, straight bill, black legs (limping), scaly
back, size large for "peep" (near in size to, but smaller than,
Dunlin), feeding in middle of mud flat, not at edge or in water)
DUNLIN 1
Bonaparte's Gull 500
Ring-billed Gull 220
Mourning Dove 210
Blue Jay - none
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Field Sparrow 1

Bill Buskirk
Biology Department
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374