With all of the ponds finally thawed out, I decided to do a run to several of them. My first stop was Green Pond where I saw 44 Canada Geese, 3 Snow Geese, 6 Mallards, 2 American Black Ducks, 3 Red-winged Blackbirds, and 11 Common Grackles.
I stopped at the flooded field area at Steuben Road and Little Creek Drive and spotted a Killdeer.
Just down the road at the Regency ponds, I found 2 Snow Geese among 80 Canada Geese, 21 Mallards, 8 Green-winged Teal, 3 Ring-necked Ducks, 7 Buffleheads, one Killdeer, my first 3 Tree Swallows, and my first two Brown-headed Cowbirds.
Notables at the Silver Crest Road pond included 11 Ring-necked Ducks, a Bufflehead, 5 Ruddy Ducks, and a Belted Kingfisher.
Another two Killdeer were found at the Newburg Park pond.
The Trio Farms Boulevard ponds produced 3 Ring-necked Ducks, 6 Buffleheads, and 2 Hooded Mergansers.
The Nazareth Quarry was the next stop where Adam Miller had found a "Eurasian" x "American" Green-winged Teal hybrid earlier in the day. Among 5 Green-winged Teal, I spotted his hybrid bird, which had both the horizontal white bar along the wing and the vertical white bar on its side. The was definitely a different bird from the Common Teal that I found a couple days before. Also present were 2000 Snow Geese, 65 Canada Geese, 10 Northern Shovelers, 13 Gadwall, 4 Mallards, 9 American Black Ducks, 2 Northern Pintails, 16 Ring-necked Ducks, 2 Greater Scaup, 14 Buffleheads, 13 Common Mergansers and one Red-breasted Merganser, around 40 Ruddy Ducks, 13 American Coots, 2 Horned Grebes, 3 Black Vultures, and 2 Turkey Vultures.
The last stop was the nearby Hollo Road pond, which held a Snow Goose and 4 Buffleheads among the usual suspects.
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