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| Red breasted Mergansers (really!), Quabbin Park, June 4, 2014 |
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| Red breasted Mergansers (really!), Quabbin Park, June 4, 2014 |
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| Red breasted Mergansers (really!), Quabbin Park, June 4, 2014 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, June 4, 2014 |
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| Winsor Dam with Common Mergansers and Canada Geese, Quabbin Park, June 4, 2014 |
I got woken up early by a thunderstorm this morning so I got
up a bit early. Once Wilson got settled
down after the storm passed I headed over to Quabbin in the hopes of finding
something of interest brought down by the storms. At Winsor Dam I had a half dozen Common
Mergansers but I don’t think these were storm related as I have had them around
on and off for weeks now. Without
finding anything at Winsor Dam I made a quick run over to Goodnough Dike and
had a little more luck when I ran across a group of three distant Red breasted
Mergansers. They seemed ready to fly off
as they kept flapping and moving around but they were still there when I
left. With more rain forecast to arrive just before dawn and continue all day tomorrow perhaps some late migrant will be forced down (Arctic Tern, Red Phalarope, other shorebirds....who knows?)
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| Winsor Dam before the storms arrive, June 3, 2014 |
Before the storms of yesterday evening I headed over to
Winsor Dam in the hopes of finding some nighthawks (or something even more
unusual). I managed to get one Common Nighthawk moving past calling but little else.
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