Waterfowl numbers continue to mount at Sabattus Pond. Though the light there was poor for detailed viewing this evening, there were well over 300 Ruddy Ducks, over 200 scaup sp., smaller numbers of Ring-neckeds, Blacks, Mallards, Buffleheads, Goldeneyes, CAGOs, etc. More surprising (at least to me) were 400+ Black Scoters rafting in a very tight and very restless mass. Periodically, they would take off en masse, and in what seemed like an extravagant expenditure of calories, fly back and forth over the pond before settling again. A spectacular sight in the gathering twilight gloom. Finally, when it was almost dark, they took off an exited over the south end of the pond.
Bill Hancock
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