There are many signs of coming winter here at Honeymoon Lake — one of them is the changing of the birds. The songbirds are mostly gone and the winter birds have arrived. The buffleheads showed up a week ago and the mallards a couple of weeks before that. There has also been a comorant sighting.

As I mentioned earlier, I slacked off on my birds page because my source of Audubon text was taken down but I just found another source at Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The text is from Audubon's Ornithological Biography, Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, and Vol IV. You can view the Audubon plates here.

I scanned Audubon's chapter on the Buffel Headed Duck.