Posted on November 08, 2005 at 06:01:21:

Ken Brock, John Cassady, Jim & Susan Hengeveld and the Bloomington contingent, a nice selection of Chicago birders, and Jeff McCoy, made the folllowing observations.

Common Loon (156)
Horned Grebe (38)
SNOW GOOSE (16- 15 blues & one white)
Gadwall (8)
Am. Black Duck (3)
BLUE-WINGED TEAL (1- only the 10th Nov record for the lakefront)
N. Pintail (13)
Green-winged Teal (42)
Canvasback (6)
Redhead (8)
Ring-necked Duck (7)
Greater Scaup (8)
Lesser Scaup (67)
BLACK SCOTER (9)
Dark-winged scoter (1)
Bufflehead (1- male)
Red-breasted Merganser (4)
Sanderling (2)
Dunlin (75)
Bonaparte’s Gull (55)

MICHIGAN CITY HARBOR
SNOW GOOSE (5- flock of white morphs)
Common Goldeneye (1 male- our first of the fall)
Herring Gull (175- numbers up a bit from last week)

BEVERLY SHORES
Common Loon (5)
Horned Grebe (6)
Gadwall (12)
N. Pintail (4)
Green-winged Teal (6)
Red-breasted Merganser (2)