[NatureNS] Scaup, goldeneyes, mallards, REDHEAD Port Williams

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:44:59 -0400
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Hi All,


I just returned from the sewer ponds in Port Williams. As I was  
walking out to the ponds
Stan Hancock, the utilities supervisor was on his way out to check all  
of the meters, so
I quickly peeked over the edge and did see the goldeneyes before they  
flushed. There were
eight, five drakes and 3 hens (one hen with yellow on the bill). There  
were 65 mallards,
I did notice two ducks that seemed to swim more alertly and off to the  
edge, they were in
fact scaup. Both seem to me to have the head shape of lesser scaup,  
with a bump at the
top. As I was scanning the mallards there was one that didn't seem at  
first to be
"right", no neck ring and the wrong bill colour. It was also  
associating more with the
scaup, and the red head, grey back, black rump and blue bill with  
black tip and size
smaller than mallard and larger than the scaup all fit with the  
identification with red
head duck. To my knowledge this is the first redhead at these ponds.

George Forsyth

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