I startled an Amer Pipit as I walked up to the lighthouse, and it flew up in front of me landed on ice not too far out. No sign of the tufted duck, but I also hit a spot of rain that made viewing difficult. Also, forgot to grab my gloves, and my hands were freezing. Coots, herring, great blacked-back, and ring-billed gulls, mergansers, canvasbacks, scaup, redheads in the open waters, the public marina, and the spit. Forgot to bring a small recording device my son loaned me - I would have liked to have recorded the coots and numerous ducks in the public marina and the sounds of ice and water. Apparently, I'm an unprepared birder this year! By the way, plentiful snow banks make it hard to park - seemed easiest to park by the public marina and walk to the spit and to the lighthouse from there. Maybe they will melt this week. Many birds taking advantage of the mud. -liisa
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