After the swan count this morning, I stopped by Oyster Bay to look at ducks. Last week, there was a flock of about four to five hundred; mixed mallards and wigeons, plus a variety of little peeps dashing about the tide flats, eating what looked and smelled like rotting muck. Delicious!
This week, the tide was higher than I ever remember seeing it here, and the breakwater that surrounds the lagoon and the tide flats was almost completely covered. A few birds still waited there for the water to recede.
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| Wigeons in flight, disturbed by my presence on the path above. |
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| They make trails in the water as they leave. |
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| At the tip of the remaining breakwater. Wigeons, pintails, mallards, peeps and a crow. |
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| And one Canada goose. |
I keep seeing a bird I think might be some kind of Grebe near the cabin. It never gets close enough for a good shot with my little camera, but it has a good sized body, a pointed bill, and dives like a loon or fishing duck. Maybe if I wait long enough it will come inside the log boom for a closeup. - Margy
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