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On 28 November, I counted diving ducks on Lake Pepin (Goodhue and Wabasha counties) and came up with the following: 26,000 Common Mergansers, three Hooded Mergansers, one Red-breasted Merganser, 45 Common Goldeneye, and two Lesser Scaup. The real attraction here is not the mergansers, but the gulls which are attracted to the mergansers; I counted one Bonaparte's Gull, 3600 Ring-billed Gulls, 251 Herring Gulls, four Thayer's Gulls (three adults, one second-winter), and three Glaucous Gulls (one adult, one third/fourth-winter, and one second-winter, an unusual number for this location). Karl Bardon --part1_140.1d971857.2cfa1bf0_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Geneva" F= AMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" SIZE=3D"2">On 28 November, I counted diving ducks on Lak= e Pepin (Goodhue and Wabasha counties) and came up with the following: 26,00= 0 Common Mergansers, three Hooded Mergansers, one Red-breasted Merganser, 45= Common Goldeneye, and two Lesser Scaup. The real attraction here is not the= mergansers, but the gulls which are attracted to the mergansers; I counted=20= one Bonaparte's Gull, 3600 Ring-billed Gulls, 251 Herring Gulls, four Thayer= 's Gulls (three adults, one second-winter), and three Glaucous Gulls (one ad= ult, one third/fourth-winter, and one second-winter, an unusual number for t= his location).<BR> <BR> Karl Bardon</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Geneva" FAMILY=3D"SANSSERI= F" SIZE=3D"2"></FONT></HTML> --part1_140.1d971857.2cfa1bf0_boundary--
