A brief visit to Brookville Lake's Fairfield Causeway, Sagamore 
Resort and Dunlapsville Causeway Wednesday afternoon produced large 
numbers of ducks (composition very similar to the Lake Lemon flocks 
the same afternoon) and a lot of gull activity - birds were up and 
actively foraging in the brisk winds.  I had little time to carefully 
work through them.  Highlights:

Common Loon 2
Horned Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Gadwall 3
American Black Duck 6
Mallard 300
Northern Shoveler 2
Redhead 2+
Ring-necked Duck 35+
Lesser Scaup 625+ (I think this is nearly 3 times the previous fall 
high for Brookville Lake)
Anthya (sp) 100+
Bufflehead 5
Hooded Merganser 30
Ruddy Duck 21
FRANKLIN'S GULL 1 (first-cycle bird, actively foraging along the 
Dunlapsville Causeway)
Bonaparte's Gull 1300+
Ring-billed Gull 750+

Bill Buskirk
Biology Department
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374