This afternoon, on my way home from Woodard Bay (67 Great Blue Heron!),
I made my usual stop to scan the north end of Black Lake where I found
one male Tufted Duck in a raft of 10 Greater Scaup. Waterfowl on Black
Lake do a lot of commuting between the lake and nearby ponds and
smaller lakes, plus the South Sound embayments, so these Aythya could
show up at other locations in the Olympia area.

This report was mailed for Doug Canning by http://birdnotes.net

Date: March 25, 2007
Location: Black Lake, Thurston County, Washington

Low temperature: 14 degrees fahrenheit
High temperature: 14 degrees fahrenheit
Wind direction: S
Prevailing wind speed: 6-11 km/h
Percentage of sky covered by clouds: 20%
Precipitation: none

Observing north end of lake from Black Lake - Belmore Road between
1655 and 1710.

Birds seen (in taxonomic order):

Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) 1 [1]
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) 10 [2]
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 2 [3]
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 45
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 2 [4]

Footnotes:

[1] Male.
[2] M:F = 1:1
[3] Males.
[4] Males singing from east and west shores as usual.

Total number of species seen: 5

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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at zhonka.net
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