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Spent the day birding in southern VT trying to cash in on yesterday's scoter
excitement. Made 17 stops at 13 different ponds, lakes, and reservoirs
scattered across the southern towns. Found surf and white-winged scoters, but
missed black (which unfortunately was my target). Red-breasted merg was another
good find for inland VT.
Here are the numbers, first the totals then broken down by location -
- DC Cormorant - 1
- Pied-billed Grebe - 5
- Canada Geese - 271
- Mallard - 26
- Black Ducks - 2
- Green-winged Teal - 3
- Wood Duck - 4
- Ring-necked Duck - 11
- Common Goldeneye - 1
- Bufflehead - 4
- Surf Scoter - 5
- White-winged Scoter - 1
- Common Merganser - 25
- Red-breasted Merganser - 3
- Hooded Merganser - 4
- Merganser sp. - 1
Notable non-waterfowl -
- 1 Great Blue Heron
- 1 Osprey
- 1 Water pipit
- 4 Hermit thrushes
Miller's Pond - Arlington
- 2 Pied-billed grebes
- 4 Hooded mergs
Lake Shaftsbury - Shaftsbury
- 2 Mallards
- 150 Canada geese along US 7A in Shaftsbury
Lake Paran - Bennington
- 1 Double-crested cormorant
- 2 Pied-billed grebes
- 22 Canada geese
- 1 Green-w Teal
- 1 Ring-necked duck
- 1 Common goldeneye
- 5 Surf Scoters (4 male, 1 female)
- 1 White-winged scoter (male)
- 1 Osprey
Big Pond - Woodford
- 20 Mallards (all making dives under water!! - really had me going at
first)
- 2 Black ducks
- 1 Great blue heron
Searsburg Reservoir - Searsburg
Nothing
Somerset Reservoir - Somerset
- Hermit thrushes - 4 (along the road)
No waterfowl
Harriman Reservoir - Wilmington and Whitingham
- 50 Canada geese
- 1 Merganser sp.
- 1 Water pipit
No waterfowl in 2 other stops
Sadawga Pond - Whitingham
- 4 Mallards
- 4 Wood ducks
- 6 Ring-necked ducks
Ryder Pond - Whitingham
- 3 Red-breasted mergansers
Clara Lake - Whitingham
No waterfowl
Lake Raponda - Wilmington
- 36 Canada geese
- 4 Ring-necked ducks
- 1 Bufflehead
- 9 Common mergs
Brattleboro Retreat - Brattleboro
- 1 Pied-billed grebe
- 13 Canada geese
- 2 Mallards
- 2 Green-winged teal
Unnamed Lake along Rte 142 in S Brattleboro
- 3 Buffleheads
- 14 Common mergs
Mike Resch
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Pepperell, MA
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