LaDue was brimming with ducks this afternoon.  I spent several hours
happily picking
through the flocks.  (A scope is a real plus here, but many were
easily seen with  binoculars.)

I saw two long tailed ducks, a male and a female, on the reservoir.
Bonnie Fish found a third
long tailed, a  male, later this evening.

Horned grebes, well over forty, many already in breeding plumage.  A
few pied bills also.
Over 80 buffleheads, 100 plus red breasted mergansers, a few common
mergansers.

Lots of scaup,  and a few n. shovelers, ring necked ducks, mallards
and ruddy ducks.
(Many missed, to be ferreted out tomorrow.)

Seen from Valley Road.

Inga Schmidt

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