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| Red breasted Merganser, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Red breasted Merganser, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Red breasted Merganser, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Red breasted Merganser, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Common Loon, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Common Loon, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
I spent a few hours this morning once again at Quabbin Park primarily looking
for waterfowl but given the southerly winds I didn't expect to find too much. I
started before dawn at Winsor Dam where I had a flyby group of nine Ring necked
Ducks but little else so I headed into the park with stops at Hanks Meadow, the
area near Goodnough Dike and the Route 9 marsh. Waterfowl included four Black
Ducks, 9 Mallards, two Hooded Mergansers, 71 Common Mergansers in a single
flock, a Red breasted Merganser, four Common Loons, 14 Horned Grebes and 7
Canada Geese. Besides the waterfowl I had a flyby Snow Bunting and an American
Woodcock.
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| Black Duck, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Mallards in flight, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Common Loon, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Common Loon, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Common Loon, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Nov 16, 2013 |
A stationary count at Winsor Dam produced a handful of waterfowl including a
Common Loon, a pair of Wood Ducks, a Black Duck, seven Mallard and three Common
Mergansers. Other notable birds included a flyover group of a dozen Snow
Buntings, a group of 13 Wild Turkeys eating crab apples (with a few in the
trees), four Bald Eagles and a somewhat late flyby Yellow rumped
Warbler. The calm conditions made viewing easy as the water was like glass.
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