After an afternoon meeting in White River Junction, I returned to Concord 
via my old stomping grounds on Mascoma Lake. Things were fairly quiet, with 
the following noted from various vantage points along Route 4A (starting at 
the dam and heading southeast):

Canada Goose 6
Am. Black Duck 3
Mallard ~25
RED-THROATED LOON 1
Common Loon 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 1 (adult)
Ring-billed Gull ~10
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 4

Water seems unusually low - is anyone aware of work on the dam or anything 
that would explain this? I don't recall ever seeing it this low for routine 
fall dock preservation activities. Probably too late for unusual shorebirds, 
but if the water had been down for a while this may have been a missed 
opportunity.

Other local water bodies like George Pond and McDaniel's Marsh were already 
mostly frozen over.

Pam Hunt
Penacook, NH