I briefly visited Brookville Lake this morning (07:30-09:30),
stopping at the Sagamore Resort and at the Whitewater State Park
Ramp.   Nice set of diving ducks off Sagamore.  Highlights:

Common Loon 2 (8 were present when I stopped by briefly this evening)
Horned Grebe 3
Great Blue Heron 35 (WWSP)
Black Vulture 2 (WWSP)
Am. Black Duck 2
Mallard 90
Green-winged Teal 23
Redhead 5
Ring-necked Duck 14
Greater Scaup 2
Lesser Scaup 85
Hooded Merganser 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Merlin 1 (Sagamore)
Wild Turkey 1 gobbling
American Coot 350 est (Sagamore)
Killdeer 420 (WWSP ramp)
Least Sandpiper 3 (WWSP - mostly feeding on driftwood emerging from
shallows and mudflats)
Baird's Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Dunlin 102
Bonaparte's Gull 450
Ring-billed Gull 135
Herring Gull 1 (Sagamore, my first this fall)

Bill Buskirk
Biology Department
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374