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Monday January 29 2012 I spent some time with Jim Edsall checking out a few of the interesting birds in the Douglas area at the moment on Monday. There is a COMMON GALLINULE, formally called COMMON MOORHEN at the Red Bridge Pond area. This bird seems to be contentedly overwintering in the area adjacent a warm water outflow into a marshy area that is very easily observed now with the vegetation died back. Some folks are putting out food for it but it looks like it may do fine on its own by the way it swims about. We also found an overwintering AMERICAN COOT that sometimes is with the GALLINULE but on Monday was by the dam at Lake Banook and cooperated by coming up on the land underneath bridge we were on to see very clearly its unique tube-like projection on its digits, the red on the facial shield and the bright red eye. Several EURASIAN WIGEONS were feeding on the grass banks of Sullivan's Pond with AMERICAN WIGEONS, one we were able to pick out as a female. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT has been about the area near Sullivan's Pond as well but we were not able to coax it out into view if it was indeed there. These spots are all withing 5 minutes of each other and very worth checking out if in the Dartmouth area. Nelson Poirier Nature Moncton.
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