Murin (TGM), Nancy Olsen, John & Susan Peterson, William Peterson, 
Frederick Pratt, Peter Riley, Donald Roberson, Allan Strong, John & 
Patricia Thaxton, Jan Trzeciak, Margaret Tsuda, Susan Turner, Hollis 
White, Gary Worthington. 
ABBREVIATIONS 
AP - Ausable Point WMA; BB - Bloomingdale Bog; CH - Cumberland 
Head; CR - Chazy Rivers; CRF - Cedar River Flow; FB - Ferd's Bog; 
JBL - John's Brook Lodge; KB - King's Bay; PtR - Point au Roche SP; SL 
- Saranac Lake; SLB - Silver Lake Bog; SR - Split Rock; TL - Tupper 
Lake. 
LOONS-DUCKS 
Red-throated Loon: migrant SR 28 Nov 
(TGM). 
Homed Grebe: arr 3 Coll Bay 23 Oct (JR 
J&PT); max 20 AP 29 Nov (NO). 
Red-necked Grebe: arr 3 Coll Bay 23 Oct 
(JP, J&PT); Westport 6 Nov (J&PT); 
Raquette Pd 8 Nov (CD); migrant SR 28 
Nov (TB). 
Double-crested Cormorant: CRF 5 Sep 
(C&RGM) and Utowana L 29 Oct (GL), 
unusual inland. 
Am. Bittern: Westport 20 Nov (JG, TDM), 
record late ESSE. 
Black-crowned Night-Heron: AP 8 Sep 
(BK, CM), last. 
GLOSSY IBIS: 1 s. Rouses Pt 6 Oct (JP), 
flushed from cornfield with Ring-billed 
Gulls by Amtrak "Adirondack." See 
intro for VT and Quebec sightings. 
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE: 
CH 28 Nov (JM), in flock of Canadas. 
Snow Goose: arr CR 19 Sep (Amtrak 
crew); 600 L Placid 5 Oct (AH), high for 
the interior, but flocks of 12-14 thousand 
could be found in the PtR, CR, and 
Rouses Pt areas Oct-late Nov; only 3 of 
38 neck collars read 11 Nov matched the 
65 seen 29 Oct (DH), suggesting consid¬ 
erable turnover in the "Greater" Snows 
marked on Canada's Bylot Island NWT. 
ROSS'S GOOSE: PtR 8 Oct; 3 PtR 29 
Oct, 1 classic Ross's, the others so stun¬ 
ningly different from surrounding Snows 
that they had little Snow bloodline; 1 
pure, 1 hybrid PtR 11 Nov (DH). 
Canada Goose: 1 small race Malone 3 
Sep (JT); leucistic-necked Westport 23 
Oct 0P, J&PT); 1 tiny hutchinsii PtR 28-29 
Oct; larger and longer-necked 
hutchinsii / minima-type north of PtR 29 
Oct; 2 small stubby-necked, stubby-billed 
hutchinsii/minima-type PtR 11 Nov (DH); 
max 1750 Westport 6 Nov (J&PT). 
Gadwall: Westport 3 Oct (TB, JP), 
uncommon. 
Blue-winged Teal: CRF 5 Sep (C&RGM); 
Westport 24 Sep (JT); NCCC pd 27 Sep 
(TD), uncommon transient. 
N. Shoveler: 3 Willsboro 13 Nov (TDM, 
JP), rare fall transient ESSE. 
N. Pintail: PtR 20 Nov (JG, TDM), only 
report. 
Green-winged Teal: 4 CRF 5 Sep (RGM), 
uncommon HAMI; Westport Sep more 
expected. 
Greater Scaup: arr SR 28 Nov. 
Lesser Scaup: arr 20 TL 18 Oct. 
Surf Scoter 5th L first wk Nov (GL), 
uncommon HAMI transient according to 
Eaton. 
White-winged Scoter, arr 8 Essex 1 Oct; 
Westport 13 Nov. 
Bufflehead: 450 Willsboro 13 Nov (TDM, 
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