Encouraged by Matt Valencic's report from yesterday (3/24), I cruised Valley Road alongside LaDue Reservoir.  Pretty good assortment:
40+ ring-necked ducks in a raft; other diving ducks came in eights: 8 scaup, 8 canvasback and 8 redhead.  All three mergansers were present with about 6 red-breasted, 3 pair of common and 7 hooded.  Prize duck was a lone male white-winged scoter.  19 tundra swans were on the ice on the near the dam at the north end of the reservoir left from Matt's 85 yesterday.  2 immature bald eagles, some crows, several herring gulls and lots of ring-billed gulls were on the ice too.  Food seems to be abundant in the form of dead gizzard shad.  Watched a horned grebe (one of at least 11 scattered around the reservoir) struggle to upend and swallow a six inch shad to no avail - too wide for its gape.  

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