Date: 4/24/24 7:23 am From: <sselt...> Subject: Whistling Ducks at Larned / 24 April
I was wondering this morning if I would ever be able to add Black-bellied Whistling-Duck to our yard list and then it almost happened! I just saw a flock of 7 BBWDs, their white wing patches shining in the sun, flying over open country about 8 miles NW of Larned and just a mile from our house. I had just seen another BBWD flying over the north side of Larned an hour earlier.
Last week on April 15 I saw a flock of 8 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in Great Bend. They were flying low over McKinley Street by Veterans Lake. I suspect that the numbers in Great Bend are large and are increasing, however it's a big town with lots of ponds and old sandpits where they can disappear from sight. The easiest place to see Black-bellied Whistling Ducks is in Ellinwood. I think it is well-known that the little pond south of the RR tracks at the west side of Ellinwood seems to have a few almost 100% of the time.
Two female Black Scoters were still at Kingman State Fishing Lake on Monday, 22 April.
Scott Seltman
Larned, Kansas
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