The Lake Champlain ice margin is creeping steadily northward and is now
opposite DAR State Park in Addison.
Ron Payne and I counted over 3700 waterfowl and gulls concentrated near
the ice front today, actively milling about .... except for some of the
gulls, who were placidly lounging on the ice edge.

The most interesting find for this early winter season was a single
drake Redhead. The full list is below.

Nice sightings elsewhere in our travels today included beautiful tracks
of a bobcat at DAR, numerous Red-tailed and Rough-legged Hawks, a
Northern Mockingbird on Lake Street, Bridport, two Bald Eagles -- one at
Tri-Town (Addison) and one on Rock Island in White Bay (Panton), a
Northern Shrike on Weybridge Road (Weybridge), and two Snowy Owls at the
corner of Jersey Street and Route 17 (Addison) --- which were easily
located by the number of cars pulled to the sides of both roads and
their birders with focused cameras .

Ian
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DAR State Park, Addison, US-VT
Dec 27, 2013 10:15 AM - 12:49 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 mile(s)
Comments: Ron Payne, Ian Worley


Canada Goose 1

American Black Duck 44

Mallard 38

Northern Pintail 3

Redhead 1

Greater Scaup 670 Clicker count of all Scaup by individuals was
1911. Birds milling about and in places mixed with Common Goldeneye and
other species, made for difficult counting. Samples of species counts
yielded estimate of 35% Greater Scaup and 65% Lesser Scaup.

Lesser Scaup 1240 Clicker count of all Scaup by individuals was
1911. Birds milling about and in places mixed with Common Goldeneye and
other species, made for difficult counting. Samples of species counts
yielded estimate of 35% Greater Scaup and 65% Lesser Scaup.

White-winged Scoter 1 Dark duck with whitish cheek and ear patches,
white secondaries. Female or immature.

Long-tailed Duck 2

Common Goldeneye 1500 Clicker count by individuals was 1506. Birds
milling about and in places mixed with Scaup and other species, made for
difficult counting.

Common Merganser 58

Red-breasted Merganser 1

Ring-billed Gull 124

Herring Gull 31

Great Black-backed Gull 8

gull sp. 45 Likely Ring-billed Gulls. On New York shore.

Red-bellied Woodpecker 1

Downy Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 1

American Crow 8

Common Raven 1

Black-capped Chickadee 2

White-breasted Nuthatch 1

Carolina Wren 1

Golden-crowned Kinglet 1

American Robin 390 Streaming flock overhead. Separately counted by
10s by both observers.

American Tree Sparrow 3

American Goldfinch 1


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