23 March 2007 1200

At Retreat Meadows NE corner.

Several (2?) Phoebes flitting around the deck and snapping up insects on the ice (!) around 
the MaRina Restaurant.

Across the Ice, SE, in open water close to shore:

Hooded Mergansers, 2 pr. some displaying going on
Common Mergansers, 3 pr.
Also visible at closer range from turn off at N end of Putney Rd. bridge.

John Nevins
Concord, MA
and Marlboro, Vt