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Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:02:44 -0400
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Superior Lagoon is basically a couple of boat channels surrounding a
strip of land jammed with homes of people who like to see as many boats
as possible through their back windows. Few vistas are available to the
average visitor, but the best are north along Park Rd just west of the
Rt. 6 bridge over the river. We visited there this morning but missed
the bird. Thanks to Tom Stahl for his report of this remarkable record.
        We saw two gulls and a couple dozen swallows, one mallard.
Whistlers are very adaptable ducks, and this seemingly inhospitable area
has attracted one, but we would have had a fighting chance at finding it
only with a boat. Unless people feed ducks there--which I didn't see
going on--flying twenty miles from Pipe Creek just because some birders
spooked them seems like a stretch, so there could easily be two or more
of these ducks around now; they are social creatures, and could wander
in groups. And oh yes, we were at Pipe Creek from 830-915 and
11:30-12:30 as well. There are now two red-necked phalaropes and a
molting adult long-billed dowitcher (it was the only adult dow present;
all the rest were juvenile SBD); a possible little blue heron was
glimpsed unsatisfactorily in the lotuses in C. Otherwise little had
changed since Saturday, when I missed the departure of the duck by
twenty minutes, and its return by half an hour. If you see me there, go
to lunch.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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