As someone noted a few days ago, many of the water fowl have cleared out 
of Black Hills, and from Rt 121 I only saw a few, including 4 common 
megansers; granted, I only had binocs today, but couldn't even discern very 
many 'distant black dots' on the water.  However, I went into the Park around 
to the boat ramp and found 8-10 bufflehead M/F, 3 F hooded mergansers, 4-5 
ringneck ducks, 8 coots, about 20 common mergansers M/F and 3 M red-
breasted mergansers and one pied bill grebe.  Not very many canada geese, 
but one double-crested cormorant sitting on a stump in the water and a really 
gorgeous great blue heron.  I also saw what I think was a rough-winged 
swallow fly over the lake; I suppose it could have been a swift, but seems the 
wrong time of year, wrong time of day, and the flight pattern didn't seem right 
for a swift.

Then, on my way home along a little country lane, I spotted 15 M/F ring neck 
ducks on a farmer's little pot-hole pond!