Subject: A few uncommon ducks
Date: Jan 11 23:17:26 2003
From: Kelly Mcallister - mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov


Hi Tweets,

My waterfowl surveys in Thurston and Pierce counties were completed last week. The less common
winter waterfowl I observed were:

Eurasion Wigeon: Long Lake (1); Lawrence Lake (1); Zeller Road (1)
Redhead: Long Lake (1)
Wood Duck: Long Lake (9); Hicks Lake (5)
Greater White-fronted Goose: Wapato Lake (1)
Trumpeter Swan: Silver Lake - Pierce Co. (1)
Tundra Swan: Lawrence Lake (1)

Lawrence Lake was rather phenomenal this year. It's always at the top of the list in my area.
However, this year 770 Common Mergansers and 167 Hooded Mergansers were the most mergansers
on a single freshwater body in recent memory.

Kelly McAllister
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Olympia, Washington
Reply to: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov