Gerald & Laura Tarbell wrote:
> took my binocs on down to the lake.
> ... found 17 HOODED MERGANSERS. They were clearly
> mergansers and not hooded warblers. Hooded species can be hard to sort out
> but that's an easy one.
But did you consider hooded oriole?

> Then the surprise - 2 HORNED GREBES. Definitely not horned larks- the 
> latter
> are seldom found actually in a lake.
Don't be too sure! I have photos of Horned Larks in the middle of the 
entrance pond at Western Regional Park. (There wasn't any water in the 
pond at the time, but that's a minor detail - it's still a lake, right?)

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