Quabbin Park again

Horned Grebes, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Dawn at Hanks Meadow, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Black Scoters, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Common Loon, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Common Loons, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Little Quabbin, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Looking west toward Gate 52, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Surf Scoter, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

View north from near Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Oct 21, 2013

Although I knew I wouldn't be able to stay out long this morning as I continue to fight a cold I just couldn't keep from making a brief run through Quabbin Park.  Yet again my focus was on waterfowl and I turned up some good stuff (nothing new for the year but good stuff nonetheless).  Waterfowl at Quabbin Park this morning included the following: Red throated Loon (flyby at Winsor Dam), 9 Common Loons, 11 Horned Grebes, 2 Double crested Cormorants, 18 Black Scoters (groups of 11 and 7), a Surf Scoter (female), 14 Wood Ducks, 53 Black Ducks, a Hooded Merganser, 11 Common Mergansers, 19 Mallards and 23 Canada Geese. Also had a Spotted Sandpiper that I flushed from along the shore near Hanks Meadow and a couple flyover American Pipits at Winsor Dam.

Later in the morning a walk along the Belchertown Land Trust trail turned up a somewhat late Eastern Towhee and a late Common Yellowthroat plus a Field Sparrow and a flyover group of three Pine Siskins.

My cold really started catching up with me by mid morning so I headed back home to rest a bit.