Mark Johnson called me this morning about a breeding plumage male Common
Goldeneye at Mill Creek Lake this morning.
After I got there the tally of notable species was:
Common Goldeneye - 1 breeding male, 1 immature male, four female
Long-Tailed Duck - Two winter males, two females
Red-Breasted Merganser - 1 male, 1 female
White-winged Scoter - 1 female
Rudy Ducks - many
Bufflehead - several
Double-Crested Cormorant - many
Hooded Merganser - several
Lesser Scaup - several
Ring-Necked Duck - several
Horned Grebe - 1 in transition plumage
Bonaparte's Gull 1
American Pipit - 37 - between parking lot and shoreline when I arrived. They
had been there for about 30 minutes already.
Red Shouldered Hawk -1 seen, another heard
Barred Owl - 1 heard
Karl Huebner
Forest, VA
