Feb. 11, 1976, Easton and Green End Ponds, Newport, Newport Co. Rhode Island with John S. Gottschalk, 855-ll a.m. Ovc, cold and very windy. 2/3 of upper Easton frozen over, 4/5 of lower Easton frozen over. Mallard - 25 Black Duck - 45-50 Green-winged Teal - 10-15 Greater Scaup - 12's & 500 N of Newport Bufflehead - 2M & 5Fimms. Ruddy Duck 2- Common Merganser - 10M & 5Fimms Red-brstd Merganser - 2 pr. ***Smew - Mergus albellus - 1 male - Lifer & NA Listers - finally located at a distance on south Easton. It was stretching head and neck, wings out, and diving, and swimming rapidly to the east. While we moved over a half mile, it disappeared from its prior location. We spent half-hour over south and west sides of 2 ponds, and relocated it in open water area S of Green End road. In close company with Fimm C. Merganser, just staying in one small area in mid-pond. Did beat wings, turn slowly around so all sides, rear and head-on views were plain thru the scope(15x-45X) (green end road & Miantimoni St.) Watched it for half hour as it swam across pond, to east, diving only occasionally until reading east side near brugh, and then started diving actively 1-3 or more times per minute, afterwards, swimming and diving rapidly as it crossed to w side of pond, and there was diving with a dozen common mergansers, mostly drakes. Was an adult male, with black bill and black area at front of head that made the whole front black. Side marks very thin. Black back between winds showed little. Crest outline not distinctive. Coot - 30 Black-backed Gull - 10 Herring Gull - 25 Ring-bill Gull - 15 Bonaparte - 50- most on waves Common Tern - 2 Mourni g Doves Blue Jay, Crow, Chickadee and House Finches Feb. 11, 1976, Saulisbury Beach St. Park, Essex Co. Mass. 2-3 p.m. Very windy, clear, cold. Greater Cormorant Canada Geese in grasslands Black Ducks Greater Scaups and 1 Tufted Duck Common Eider - 20& C. Goldeneyes - 10& Buffleheads Com and Red-br. Mergansers Purple Sandpiper s 40 Herring, Ring-bill, Black-back and Bonaparte Gulls. (Henderson of Andover N.H.) ***Ivory Gull - Pagophila eburnea - Lifer & NA Listers - Difficult to see this near-adult on the piles of ice flows on banks of Merrimac R. at part boat launch. Was in from open water 8-10 feet. I went out on ice to flush it, and it flew less than 50 yards to land again. The rows of black spottings on the wings were almost absent, and were smaller than illustrations on the trailing edge feather tips, too. Black bill and black area on fauve gave the front half of head a black look, like the Smew at Newport. Feb. 11, 1976, Ipswich to Rockport and around Cape Ann, Essex Co. Mass. 4-530p.m. Windy. Horned Grebe Buffleheads Common Scoters Cardinal Common Loon Harlequins C. Eider Song Sp. Blue Heron SE of Ipswich White-wing Scoters Red-brst Merganser Canada Goose flocks in some pastures 4 types of gulls Feb. 28, 1976, Sycamore Lndg Rd and Hughes Hollow, 7-850a.m. -ovc/, cold,w/DEMarshall Blue Heron - 2 Mallards -12's, Black Duck 20, Wood Duck sev. prs. Blue-wing Teal-4pr. Ring-bill Gull - 2, Phoebe, Creeper, Marsh Wren, Eastern Bluebirds and Rusty Blackbirds. at Senena along C&O 910-945a.m. Pied-billed Grebes Red-breasted Merganser, Can. Goose, Coots, Flicker, Pileated, Red-headed (M) and Hairy Woodpeckers Feb. 14, 1976, Plummers Island, Mont. Co. Md. 130-215 cool, clear, NW5. Red-bellied Wpkr. Tufted Titmouse Hairy and Downy Wpkr. Carolina Wren C. Crows Myrtle Warbler Car. Chickadee Cardinals White-throated and Song Sparrows. Winter Wren