Saturday morning, Wes Kolb and I went to White Oak Park in Bloomington. As soon as we got out of the car to scope the ducks, I noticed a group of small birds on the lake with a larger bird with its neck and head sticking up above them. It was a scoter swimming with Pied-billed Grebes. I called Matthew Winks, and he showed up quickly and helped us identify the bird, which by that time was with a raft of Ring-necked Ducks, as a female White-winged Scoter. Eventually the bird did reveal the white on its wing. Joseph Phipps and Brenda Miller also arrived for a look. I returned in the afternoon and the scoter was still present hanging out with the coots.
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