I took a nice little walk over to Wooster Pond in Stratford today. It was about 1 mile both directions. Wooster pond is a nice little pond behind a middle school. There is easy visibility of the open water in a nice little park-like setting. Diversity on the walk there and back wasn't exceptional but numbers were good with some nice views. Edge habitat along the streets: White-throated sparrow, Downy Woodpecker, House Sparrow, House Finch, and Euro Starlings. Around the pond was a large number of ducks. Gadwall (6), Black Ducks, Mallards, Canada Geese (one was pretty small...), and a mallard/black duck hybrid.
A quick note: I stopped by Southern CT State University this morning and there was a group of 80 Canada Geese on the baseball field with a completely white goose in the middle. I had no binoculars but I'd hazard a guess it was a Snow Goose. When I walked by again an hour later the entire gaggle was gone.
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