Low water levels below the Ledyard Bridge produced 8 species of 
waterfowl this afternoon.  Driving back into Norwich at 3:45 pm, I 
noticed a big flock of gulls on the flats and stopped again -- they were 
all adult Ring-billeds (no Iceland), but the 77 I counted made for the 
largest single flock gull I have ever seen in the Upper Valley.  The 
goldeneyes, which had earlier been on the VT side, were across in the 
Mink Brook cove.

Location:     Ledyard Bridge
Observation date:     3/25/10
Number of species:     14

Canada Goose     29
Wood Duck     6
American Black Duck     2
Mallard     12     did not count sexes separately
Ring-necked Duck     3
Common Goldeneye     4
Hooded Merganser     2
Common Merganser     4
American Crow     5
Black-capped Chickadee     2
Brown Creeper     1
Song Sparrow     10
Northern Cardinal     1
Common Grackle     1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/vt)

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Chris Rimmer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
P.O. Box 420
Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 ext. 1
www.vtecostudies.org

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