Yesterday, ( Saturday) I went to Swan Lake, East of Patchogue, off Montauk Highway to check on the Ducks. There is always a good assortment there, as the pond does not usually freeze over, and it is quite shallow, and Lake Road runs along the East Side of the pond with space to park and check them out, especially in the morning with the sun on your back. ( For those who are not familiar with this favorite place.) I was lucky to see two Trumpeter Swans at the North end, a Red Head Duck at the south end, many other more common species of ducks ..black, mallard,ring-necked,ruddys,gadwalls (many up close), american widgeons,,lesser scaup and greater scaup, northern shovelers, hooded mergansers, buffleheads, coots, great blue heron, and mute swans. And domestic ducks and some odd black and white ducks that were the "products of a mixed marriage". No wood ducks. No pied-billed grebes either. Andy Murphy
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