Here are comments from participants:
From Linda Pivacek, Nahant, 2/26:
Brrrrrrrr... not very many birds today. Where are the scoters,
loons, grebes?
From Fay Vale, Winthrop, 2/26:
Uneventful morning. Absolutely no scaup. Golf course had no geese!
From Lee Taylor, Squantum, 2/27:
Kinda brisk out there -- we didn't take too many second looks!
Numbers way down from January; lots of open (empty) water.
From Andrew Joslin, Hough's Neck, 2/26:
American Wigeon, 2
A male and female with 33 Black Ducks at the end of Wollaston Beach where Blacks Creek exits to Dorchester Bay.
Belted Kingfisher, 1, Blacks Creek, in the estuary upstream.
Surf Scoter, 14. 11 at the Quincy Yacht Club on Hough's Neck and 3 on the south side of Nut Island, we were nuts to be out there today (a well worn TASL joke). Typically we might see 3 or 4 on this count. Two males and a female were hinting at spring with some courtship head bobbing in between dives, always nice to observe.
From Maury Hall, Weymouth, 2/27:
Thanks Lee. Everyone seems to be reporting very low numbers.
From Paul Fitzgerald, Hull, 3/4
Read 'em and weep.
Comments compiled by
Soheil Zendeh
last updated: 2006.11.01
url: http://www.gis.net/~szendeh/tasl.feb.06.notes.htm