FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Sorry, probable goof - probably not Harlequin

[FrankRenfrow@xxxxxxx]

After getting home and perusing the field guides, I realized I did not  
eliminate the possibility of a female Greater Scaup in worn plumage. The bird  
was 
all alone and had it's head tucked-in most of the time (and behind the  trees) 
and as such appeared remarkably like the female Harlequin that I had  seen 
nearby in February. But on the few occasions that it lifted its head up I  was 
a 
bit worried about the bill appearing too wide and large, and now that  I 
think of it, it possibly had a light eye and the white markings may have  been 
too 
continuous above the  bill. I'll try to check again  tomorrow morning, but 
for now it probably would not be worth a trip. You  wouldn't think one could 
mistake those two species, but if this was a scaup it  was pretty atypically 
marked as the head markings were extremely similar,with  the little white 
circle 
on the cheek just like that harlequin.  Sorry about that. Also with the water 
up, the bird was quite a bit into a  backwater on the Ohio side. If you do want 
to look anyway, it was on Washington  Street in New Richmond just east of the 
center of town in a flooded backyard  between mailboxes 806 and 820. 
 
Frank Renfrow
Bellevue, KY
 
 



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