Day 18.045: More Saturday birding

After out walk on the beach on Saturday, we decided to drive along to the mouth of Goosefare Brook. We were glad that we did. Here is some of what we saw.

We saw mallards…

Lots of mallards…

In fact, we logged 220 and that was quite a conservative estimate. I guess open water is at a premium right now. 

We saw a couple of black ducks, but the rest seemed to be mallards with a few diving ducks (see below). 

At one point, we saw a flock of rock pigeons and then…

…a fly-by from a red-tailed hawk which seemed to have spooked them. 

Common goldeneye

Common goldeneye

Red-breasted merganser

Pair of red-breasted mergansers