Onata Lake, Pittsfield, MA. November 18th, 2005.
| Northern Shoveler Anas clypeatra.
| Headed
west today, exploring the Berkshires for the first time since we
arrived in Amherst in the summer. It was rather cold, breezy and raw all day.
Selected highlights:
Eugene Moran WMA (08:05 - 10:05 hrs);
Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (3 migrating).
Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Lose flock of about 40 in spruce woods. Could have been much more as
I only went about 100 yards inside the wood. They were everywhere.
Black-capped Chickadee - c.10 with the nuthatches.
Horned Lark - 12
Snow Bunting - 16 landed briefly in the ‘west’ parking lot.
American Tree Sparrow - 3
Raven - 4
Chesire Reservoir
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Common Merganser - 1
Ruddy Duck - 2
Puple Finch - 1
Pontoosuc Lake
This place looked bleak at first but I found many birds by scoping
from the park at the southern end of the lake. Most birds were down the western
flank of the lake.
Canada Goose - c.250
Bufflehead - 2
Common Merganser - c.130, including several rafts of males.
Hooded Merganser - c.140
American Tree Sparrow - 1 Bull Hill Road.
Onota Lake
Dan Casey Memorial ‘causeway’ only, at the north end of the lake.
Canada Goose - c.300
Common Merganser - 28
Hooded Merganser - 20
NORTHERN SHOVELER -
4 females easily viewed on the northside of the causeway.
Certainly my first in Western Mass this fall, and I’m not sure if I can
recall seeing any other reports from the region.
Plainfield Pond
Hooded Merganser - 6
Raven - 2
| | All images taken using Canon Powershot A-95 through Swarovski HD telescope. |
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