Date: 12/9/25 3:13 pm From: Dorothy Johnson via groups.io <dfj6281...> Subject: Re: [southbaybirds] Hooded merganser on Vasona Lake
I was just there.
Saw the HOODED and COMMON MERGANSERS, some GADWALL, lots of GREAT and
SNOWY EGRETS, and the BALD EAGLE had a snack on a snag in the middle of the
lake.
Happy Birding
Dorothy Johnson
San Jose
On Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 2:51 PM John Harshman via groups.io <john.harshman=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> ...a male and female, with many snowy and great egrets, double-crested
> cormorants, pied-billed grebes, and common mergansers. Plus a few mallards
> and gadwalls, a belted kingfisher, some ring-necked ducks. All at the south
> end.
>
> Closer to the dam, hundreds of coots, many ruddy ducks, a few lesser scaup
> and common golden eyes, and a bufflehead or two.
>
>
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