Ice is moving in on South Bass Island. Today we still had 48 Tundra Swans resting on the edge of the ice just southeast of Perry's Victory along with an immature Bald Eagle, Canada geese, 2 greater-black-backed gulls, a few herring gulls and many common goldeneye beyond.

Melody Many and I counted the swans and checked out the open patch at the Scheeff East Point Preserve on the east end of the island.  Here there were about 6 mallards, a black duck, a few bufflehead and common goldeneye. Just a few open patches now! 

Last weekends Christmas bird count on Sunday there were over 200 tundra swans and lots of waterfowl-most numerous were scaup but  also bufflehead, common goldeneye, red-breasted mergansers, mallards, ruddy ducks, ring-necked ducks, redheads, canvasbacks, gadwall, black ducks. horned grebes, a few cormorants, and one common loon at the South Bass Island State Park in an open patch of water. 


Lisa Brohl

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