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| American Coots, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 28, 2014 |
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| American Coots, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 28, 2014 |
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| American Coots, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 28, 2014 |
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| Black Ducks and Common Mergansers, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 28, 2014 |
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| Dawn, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 28, 2014 |
As
the anti gull patrols at Quabbin started yesterday I didn’t have much hope of
finding anything at Winsor Dam this morning but thought I would try anyway. I stopped just as it was getting light and
had a couple flyover Killdeer plus a Great Horned Owl hooting. I set up the scope to scan the partially
fogged in waters and then had three American Woodcocks fly past very low heading
southwest followed by one more a minute later headed in the same direction. As expected no waterfowl at Winsor Dam so I
decided to take advantage of the calm conditions and make a quick run over to
Hank’s Meadow to try my luck there.
Although limited on time I still managed to find a nice assortment of
birds including four American Coots that initially were swimming around and occasionally diving before they came up on shore (quite unusual in the county and not a
species I see every year). Video link here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/54277284@N05/15468156468/Other
waterfowl included 22 Black Ducks, two Hooded Mergansers, 11 Common Mergansers,
four Common Loons and ten Horned Grebes.
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| Surf Scoter (L), Bufflehead (R) and Common Loons (rear), Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 27, 2014 |
I made a brief stop by
Winsor Dam on Monday before dawn and found a Surf Scoter, a group of nine
Bufflehead that flew in and settled on the water near the scoter, eight Black
Ducks flying southwest and five Common Loons.
Also a large group of gulls numbering 120+ that all appeared to be Ring
billed Gulls. A stop at the dam on the
weekend turned up well over 300 gulls but they were too distant to
identify. The anti gull patrols started
on Monday evening which makes finding
unusual stuff on the water at Winsor Dam a lot more
difficult.
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