I also got a message from another birder who had a swan on the Delaware River below the Martins Creek PPL boat launch. He thought it might be a Tundra Swan. I found two swans there. The one was an adult Mute Swan and the other was a first-year Mute Swan. First-year birds don't have the bright orange bill. Instead, they have a very dull pink bill that looks dark from a distance, plus the knob at the base of the bill is not fully formed. That's why he didn't think it was a Mute Swan. Here's a couple photos of the young bird.
Also seen from the boat launch were 34 Buffleheads, 17 American Black Ducks, 3 Common Goldeneye, 4 Common Mergansers, 3 Bald Eagles, and a Belted Kingfisher, plus one of the two continuing Killdeer that are toughing it out through this brutal winter.
I then checked the Nazareth Quarry, which is starting to freeze up along the edges now. Birds seen there included around 1000 Snow Geese, 4 American Black Ducks, 2 Green-winged Teal, 9 Redheads, 3 Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Greater Scaup, four other scaup that were too far out to confirm whether they were Greaters or Lessers, 16 Buffleheads, 24 Common Mergansers, 45 Ruddy Ducks, 10 American Coots, 9 Ring-billed Gulls, a Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Black Vultures, and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. I got this photo of six of the nine Redheads flying across the quarry.
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