I birded the fields and open water around northern Merrymeeting Bay this morning. The fields won by a landslide. Some of the flooded fields held over a thousand ducks and geese.
Woodies were particularly impressive, usually third only to blacks and mallards.
The bare field at Reed Rock Rd has been productive lately, but this morning there were only a few woodies wallowing in the mud. But when I drove down the road, the high yellow grass part of the field erupted w/ about 900 puddle ducks. I believe these were the birds found later in the afternoon in the wild rice between Green Point WMA and Swan Island, barely visible through the lasting river fog.
Other fields were similar. Although the mouth of the Abby is now ice-free, there were only 100 or so total birds there as the tide began to ebb. Too much chow still in the fields. Ring-necked ducks were limited to the wild rice beds between the jetty and the Kennebec off the point at Green Point. No known total due to fog.
No sign of a Tufted Duck.
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