Two long days of searching through the duck factory off Allen Point 
finally yielded a TUFTED DUCK.  Dwight Cargill and I trudged through the 
snow yesterday at first light only to be frustrated by the fog which 
perfectly obscured the ducks.  Today we tried again and were rewarded 
after more than an hour of searching, with one Tufted duck.  The 
strategy that worked for me to sort through the ducks was to look at all 
the ring-necks (disregard everything else), one by one, until I found 
the TUDU.  Besides the tuft, the sides of this bird are much whiter than 
the Ring-necks and the bill is not pied.   Kudos to Allen and Ted for 
finding this guy in the crowd.   Another hour went by and no luck in 
finding the Redheads or Canvasbacks, but we did turn up one drake 
Barrow's Goldeneye.   

Our tally:

1 Mallard
2 American Black Ducks
50 Ring-neck Ducks
1 TUFTED DUCK
200+ Greater Scaup
2+ Lesser Scaup
300+ Common Goldeneye
1 BARROW's GOLDENEYE
2 Herring Gulls
5 Common Merganser

Good Birding,

Terry & Dwight