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| American Wigeon, Hadley, MA, Mar 9, 2016 |
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| Green winged Teal, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 9, 2016 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 9, 2016 |
A truly amazing day of weather today with record breaking warmth that shattered the old record for the day by 12 degrees! It reached a high of 80 degrees today which is the earliest date it has been this warm ever with the previously early date being in later March. It felt more like late spring or early summer and not the beginning of March. The day started off around 40 and that is when I was out looking for stuff moved in by the southerly winds. I hit a few spots with the highlights being 31 Ring necked Ducks at Beaver Lake, five Green winged Teal at Winsor Dam, several hundred geese along East Hadley Rd and 11 Wood Ducks, three American Wigeon, five Black Ducks and 138 Mallards along the river in Hadley. I expect a decent number of early migrants will show up over the next few days as the warm weather and southerly winds will continue (although not as warm as today!)
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| Glaucous Gull, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 7, 2016 |
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| Glaucous Gull, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 7, 2016 |
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| Glaucous Gull, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 7, 2016 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 7, 2016 |
A brief stop before sunrise on Monday morning at Winsor Dam produced a 2nd winter Glaucous Gull (species
#101) hanging out with Ring billed Gulls and Herring Gulls on some freshly formed ice. A very bulky bird compared to the nearby Herring Gull and dwarfing the near by Ring billed Gulls. I managed a number of digiscoped shots but the light was not great. Also had a couple Common Loons cruising around the areas not covered in ice.
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