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[Hughjangillilan at aol dot com]

To follow up on Dennis Shirley's e-mail re. Hogle Pond in Charleston: Gary 
Grubb and I visited there today and shortly after stopping on the gravel 
drive near the pond we were greeted by the caretaker who was not a happy 
camper that we were there. He also was not interested in looking through 
Gary's scope at a beautiful male Hooded Merganser. "I could care less about 
those birds," he said. Nonetheless, we really did have a civil conversation. 
He said they get too many uninvited visitors including two hunters recently 
who "snuck into the pond area and were shooting ducks raining birdshot on my 
house." He also volunteered information on the two swans on the pond saying 
they come every winter and are joined later by two additional swans one of 
which has a gradually fading pink stripe painted on it.  The swans there 
looked big enough and had the head shape to be Trumpeters and had no yellow 
spot on the bill (as is the case with some Tundras). We didn't want to push 
our unwelcome further and left before spending more time on ID for the swans. 
The caretaker said to ask his permission if we were to come again but talking 
to Randy Cox later he indicated that he has asked permission in the past and 
been turned down.  So, there you have it!
P.S. Didn't see the Barrows Goldeneye there but did see a drake and three 
females on the pond by the Wasatch Park visitor center along with lots of 
Ringed-neck Ducks and the usual Gadwalls, Mallards, etc.  There were some 
Buffleheads on the Jordanelle Reservoir but so many loops are closed in the 
State Park that it was hard to get good looks at other waterfowl in the 
distance.  Hugh Gillilan


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