Many Ducks in Channel Saturday Morning

There were lots of ducks in the Channel this morning, many of them Long-tailed and White-winged Scoters.  The numbers below are minimum low estimates (X's for species with large numbers that I didn't count).  Otherwise, nothing remarkable.  Steve Minard saw a Glaucous Gull among the Herring Gulls on Muskegon Lake east of the channel earlier. 

- Ric

Muskegon Channel, Muskegon, US-MI
Mar 2, 2013 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments:    East End with Steve Minard; West by Myself
18 species

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  7
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)  1
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)  8
Redhead (Aythya americana)  X    about 25
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)  X    over 100
White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca)  36    
Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)  25 
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)  3
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)  X    
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)  5
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)  X  
Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)  1
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)  1
American Coot (Fulica americana)  1
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)  X    over 100
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  3
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  1

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