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This evening around 5:30pm I had some time to scan the lake for gulls = and jaegers. As soon as I set my scope a White-winged Scoter flew by = and soon after I found a small raft of ducks that included three Surf = Scoters and a one Black Scoter. Of the three scoters two of the Surf Scoters were adults in alternate = plumage and so was the White-winged Scoter! Very colorful in the grey = waters and the light behind me. The Black Scoter was most likely a = juvenile bird and so was one of the Surf Scoters. Earlier in the afternoon I was at the same spot at Park Pt. with Tom = Auer and we found 4 Surf Scoters in winter plumage fly by us fairly = close to the beach. Other birds at the Point. Black-bellied Plover Golden Plover Least Flycatcher Nashville Warbler Bonaparte's Gull Common Terns * Bohemian Waxwings near the airport in a small Mt. Ash tree on the bay = side. Mike Hendrickson Duluth ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C3878B.63957910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This evening around 5:30pm I had some = time to scan=20 the lake for gulls and jaegers. As soon as I set my scope a = White-winged=20 Scoter flew by and soon after I found a small raft of ducks that = included three=20 Surf Scoters and a one Black Scoter.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Of the three scoters two of the Surf = Scoters were=20 adults in alternate plumage and so was the White-winged Scoter! Very = colorful in=20 the grey waters and the light behind me. The Black Scoter was most = likely a=20 juvenile bird and so was one of the Surf Scoters.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Earlier in the afternoon I was at the = same spot at=20 Park Pt. with Tom Auer and we found 4 Surf Scoters in winter plumage fly = by us=20 fairly close to the beach.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Other birds at the Point.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Black-bellied Plover</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Golden Plover</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Least Flycatcher</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Nashville Warbler</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bonaparte's Gull</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Common Terns</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>* Bohemian Waxwings near the airport in = a small Mt.=20 Ash tree on the bay side.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Hendrickson</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Duluth</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C3878B.63957910--