On one of several stops at Stewart Park during a slow taxi day today (28 Oct) I got excited because I saw Chris Wood standing at a scope and Tim Lenz running back to his car. But he was just getting his notebook for a routine eBird stationary count, not a camera or cell phone about another unusual bird. The more interesting birds they pointed out included a pair of HOODED MERGANSERS swimming nearby and displaying to each other, 1 distant BRANT on the water off East Shore and 7 more flying in low toward Treman Marine Park, and 4 DUNLIN on the red lighthouse breakwater. They also saw a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER which I missed today but saw yesterday. They remarked that they did not find the NORTHERN SHOVELERS of yesterday (when I saw 4) and as long ago as last Saturday, but I saw 3 of them on a subsequent visit today. Also at Stewart Park today were 2 male BUFFLEHEAD, about 30 AMERICAN COOT, 7 COMMON MERGANSERS of which one appears to be a male which may soon get breeding plumage, and 3 male and 2 female WOOD DUCKS, plus large numbers of MALLARDS, CANADA GEESE, RING-BILLED GULLS, HERRING GULLS, and DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, and a few GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS. --Dave Nutter
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