Never have I ever seen so many Red-Breasted Mergansers on Lake Ontario as I did this morning. A blanket from Bond Head to the highest point on the Bluffs for 3 km. Lake Ontario looked black. There were several hundred Ring-Billed Gulls and Canada Geese among them.
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