Barbara and I went back to Rock Cut this morning to check on waterfowl. Just from the variety of reports yesterday, it is clear that a lot of birds are moving in and out of Pierce Lake. This morning at 10:00 we had 6 Common Mergansers (none yesterday at 12;45, but Mary had some at 11:00), Common Goldeneye, 3 Lesser Scaup (I had 4 Greaters yesterday); no gulls with black backs, no White-fronted Geese (Larry had 10 yesterday at 3:30) no Hooded Mergansers (2 yesterday at 11:45), no Ring-necked Ducks. There were a lot of Herring Gulls flying around. A large flight of Canada Geese came in from the SE, but most continued moving north and didn’t sit down on the water.

At the airport quarry pond, we had 18 Common Mergansers (almost all males), 6 Common Goldeneyes, 4 White-fronted Geese, and some Cackling Geese. These were the first Cackling I have seen this year. There were 20-30 Herring Gulls there, too, but no other species.