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All,

While conducting 10-minute point counts this AM I was doing the count along Indian Trail and found a 3rd year juv. eagle sitting on the ice dinning on a dead swan. The eagle had a little company as a crow was at the kill picking up scraps. Otherwise, the place was pretty quiet, with but four goldeneye on the remaining open water. The eagle must have scattered anything else in the area as it flew in just as I was starting the count.

I had a Yellow-rumped Warbler in Handy Township on Friday on my way home. I stopped to conduct my standard count on Kane Road at the Red Cedar River and came away with the warbler and a few others- Am. Crow, N. Cardinal, Ring-necked Pheasant, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers.

Between waterfowl hunters and the eagles my waterfowl counts and species diversity are really low this year as opposed with previous years, even with the same percentage of open water on the open portions of the Huron.

RAW

I never did see any Black Ducks on Winans this fall, depressing.....