Male long-tail duck and blue goose still present at 300pm. Thanks for the reports Nancy and James!
On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 2:02 PM, James Muller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I managed to find one Snow Goose there too, an immature blue morph. I put a
picture in my eBird checklist.
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22055032
James Muller
On Tue Feb 24 2015 at 1:49:14 PM Nancy Rudd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We watched the mass of waterfowl at the patch of open water off the
> Cheshire Rd. boat launch site on Alum Creek Reservoir (Delaware County)
> from about 11:30-1:00 today (February 24). The not-previously-reported
> sighting was of a single long-tailed duck. Most of the time we were
> there it was in the patch of water closest to the parking lot and though
> often underwater, was clearly visible when up. By the time we left it
> had moved to a smaller bit of water further from the parking area and
> was harder to spot.
>
> Other birds included one bufflehead, three horned grebes, quite a few
> lesser scaup, and large numbers of canvasbacks, redheads, common
> mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, common goldeneyes, tundra swans,
> and Canada geese. When we first arrived several different species were
> harrassing the grebes which was odd. We also enjoyed watching a
> substantial number of male goldeneyes gather around a female and
> display. They think it's spring....
>
> Nancy Rudd and Bob Gold
>
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