By my experience and other accounts this fall has been a slow season for waterfowl migration. The past few days I have taken a couple walks in N Quabbin and checked some local ponds and it seems migration has picked up as I have come up with 19 species of waterfowl and large numbers of a couple species:
Canada Geese 120 American Wigeon 1 Mallard 25 ish Black Duck 110 ish Green-winged Teal 2 N Pintail 1 Ring-necked Duck 19 Greater Scaup 13 Lesser Scaup 1 WW Scoter 1 Long-tailed Duck 1 (Gate 37) Bufflehead 12 C. Goldeneye 1 Hooded Merganser 21 Common Merganser 25ish Great Cormorant 1 (L. Mattawa) Horned Grebe 1 (Gate 35) Red-necked Grebe 1 (Gate 35) Common Loon 5
