[NatureNS] Kings Co. Ponds

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:16:45 -0400
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Checked a few of the local ponds this afternoon:<br><br>
<u>Saxon St. Pond</u> - no ducks. Likely water level too high for
dabblers.<br><br>
<u>Canard Pond</u> <x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>- ~ 50 G/W Teal
(numbers tailing off)<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab><x-tab>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>- 1 male
Blue-winged Teal (perhaps my second one this year which illustrates their
scarcity this summer)<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab><x-tab>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>- ~35
Mallards<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab><x-tab>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>- ~ 10 Black
Ducks<br>
<x-tab>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab><x-tab>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</x-tab>- no Pintails
(perhaps at New Minas Sewage Ponds, not accessible on weekends).<br><br>
<u>Port Williams Ponds</u> - somewhat similar&nbsp; to Richard S.'
experience, 3 nervous Mallards and another without a care in the world.
At any rate no Barrows.<br><br>
Otherwise an adult Lesser B/B Gull at Steam Mill on the roof of a chicken
barn. Only found one other off Saxon St. &amp; the Canard Poultry Plant.
Lots of recently plowed fields but apparently not enough gulls to occupy
them all.<br><br>
At the Poultry Plant, a flock contained ~60 Cowbirds, a few Song Sparrows
&amp; only a few Starlings. Cowbirds are usually scarce in the Valley at
this time of year.<br>
Angus<br>
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