A brief early afternoon visit to Kilowatt Park South in the Wilder  
section of Hartford, VT, enabled viewing of a female Common Goldeneye  
and two female Hooded Mergansers, all diving in the cool Connecticut  
River. Much of the water area in sight above the Wilder Dam was ice  
covered, but the ducks were in a central channel still open. Also at  
Kilowatt South, a flock of about 27 Canada Geese flew over in  
southward direction, and a Northern Mockingbird momentarily called  
while perched high in a tree adjacent to the road passing over the  
railway.

George Clark
Norwich, VT