[obol] Re: [birding] Are these what I think they are?
- From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Charlotte Hottmann <kcshottmann@xxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:36:03 -0800
Muscovy Dux?
At first I thought of Blue Goose since back in the 1970s we used to get
a lot of strange-looking ones in winter at this place:
http://www.artbarbarians.com/gallery2/search.asp?mysearch=turkey&position=16
which by the way looked nothing like the painting by that time I was in
high school ... it was more a sea of bare ground, mud and geese making
use of the warm effluent from the municipal power plant, behind a
chain-linked fence.
It would be remarkable to have Blue Geese so uniform in coloration. But
then I noticed that the red patch of bare skin includes the eye, so I
think these are Muscovy Ducks.
Happy birding,
Joel
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 19:57 -0500, Charlotte Hottmann wrote:
> We spotted these four geese at 8:00am this morning. At 50 mph we thought
> they were Bald Eagles
> on the ground - odd. When I came back with camera and bins they were gone.
> At three this
> afternoon they were in the water - swimming - certainly not Bald Eagles!
> When I came back
> again with Camera and bins (when will I ever learn to take them with me???)
> they were back
> on land. This is the best photo I was able to get, as they were settling
> down for a nap in
> the grass.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/95295128@N03/15876608083/
>
> Charlotte
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