When I have a good day at Blackwater I wonder why I ever go anywhere else. If it were closer, I might do that.
Lots of eagles, swans, geese and ducks today. There were also far more people than usual, which is a bit of a drag, as they frighten off the birds.
A good day, regardless.
![Lesser Scaup 2017-16 Lesser Scaup 2017-16](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lesser-Scaup-2017-16.jpg?resize=584%2C485&ssl=1)
I don’t often get this close to a Lesser Scaup.
![American Wigeon 2017-3 American Wigeon 2017-3](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/American-Wigeon-2017-3.jpg?resize=584%2C493&ssl=1)
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I see American Wigeons more often at Oakley Street than anywhere else.
![Canvasback 2017-6 Canvasback 2017-6](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Canvasback-2017-6.jpg?resize=584%2C464&ssl=1)
This is a female Canvasback.
![Redhead 2017-4 Redhead 2017-4](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Redhead-2017-4.jpg?resize=584%2C460&ssl=1)
These Redheads were at Oakley Street.
![Red Shouldered Hawk 2017-2 Red Shouldered Hawk 2017-2](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Red-Shouldered-Hawk-2017-2.jpg?resize=584%2C469&ssl=1)
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I found this juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk on the way to Cambridge.
![American Kestrel 2017-4 American Kestrel 2017-4](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/American-Kestrel-2017-4.jpg?resize=584%2C448&ssl=1)
This is the same banded American Kestrel I found last week. She was banded as a nestling on 22 June 2013 in a nest box in Sussex Co., NJ.
![Tundra Swan 2017-24 Tundra Swan 2017-24](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Tundra-Swan-2017-24.jpg?resize=584%2C464&ssl=1)
Many Tundra Swans hang out at Blackwater.
![Bald Eagle 2017-25 Bald Eagle 2017-25](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bald-Eagle-2017-25.jpg?resize=584%2C443&ssl=1)
![Bald Eagle 2017-24 Bald Eagle 2017-24](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bald-Eagle-2017-24.jpg?resize=584%2C483&ssl=1)
![Bald Eagle 2017-23 Bald Eagle 2017-23](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bald-Eagle-2017-23.jpg?resize=584%2C469&ssl=1)
![Bald Eagle 2017-22 Bald Eagle 2017-22](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bald-Eagle-2017-22.jpg?resize=584%2C501&ssl=1)
![Bald Eagle 2017-21 Bald Eagle 2017-21](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bald-Eagle-2017-21.jpg?resize=584%2C510&ssl=1)
I came across several pairs of Bald Eagles.
![Hooded Merganser 2017-76 Hooded Merganser 2017-76](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Hooded-Merganser-2017-76.jpg?resize=584%2C554&ssl=1)
![Hooded Merganser 2017-74 Hooded Merganser 2017-74](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Hooded-Merganser-2017-74.jpg?resize=584%2C498&ssl=1)
![Hooded Merganser 2017-77 Hooded Merganser 2017-77](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Hooded-Merganser-2017-77.jpg?resize=584%2C539&ssl=1)
![Hooded Merganser 2017-75 Hooded Merganser 2017-75](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Hooded-Merganser-2017-75.jpg?resize=584%2C476&ssl=1)
Hooded Mergansers tend to be very skittish, so I was lucky to get this close.
![Snow Goose 2017-1 Snow Goose 2017-1](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Snow-Goose-2017-1.jpg?resize=584%2C464&ssl=1)
There was a large flock of Snow Geese.
![Great Blue Heron 2017-8 Great Blue Heron 2017-8](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Great-Blue-Heron-2017-8.jpg?resize=584%2C516&ssl=1)
![Great Blue Heron 2017-7 Great Blue Heron 2017-7](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Great-Blue-Heron-2017-7.jpg?resize=584%2C565&ssl=1)
This Great Blue Heron was one of the first birds I saw.
![Northern Pintail 2017-3 Northern Pintail 2017-3](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Northern-Pintail-2017-3.jpg?resize=584%2C476&ssl=1)
![Northern Pintail 2017-2 Northern Pintail 2017-2](https://i0.wp.com/hughvandervoort.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Northern-Pintail-2017-2.jpg?resize=584%2C505&ssl=1)
I saw two large flocks of Northern Pintails.