[bcbirdclub] Re: Hooded Mergansers
- From: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'BCBC Listserve'" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:16:06 -0400
Yes Don, definitely a new species, one I was really surprised to find here.
Roger Mayhorn
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From: Don Carrier
To: 'BCBC Listserve'
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:24 PM
Subject: [bcbirdclub] Re: Hooded Mergansers
Is this a new species for Compton Mountain?
Don
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[mailto:bcbirdclub-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Mayhorn
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:27 PM
To: BCBC Listserve
Subject: [bcbirdclub] Hooded Mergansers
Hi All,
This afternoon, while Lynda and I were driving home from running some
errands, we looked at a neighbor's farm pond in passing, as we always do. There
were three dark birds on the water. With the binoculars we keep in the vhehicle
I could tell they were mergansers. After coming home and returning with my
camera and more powerful binoculars I found that they were female Hooded
Mergansers, a species we had never found here on Compton Mt before.
Here is a "not so great" photo taken from 70 or 80 yards away. Take a look at
what is swimming behind them. That huge orange and white object is a fish, a
Koi I think. I had heard that the neighbor's son had put some Koi in the pond
several years ago, but had no idea that they had gotten that big. The average
length of a Hooded Merganser is 18 inches, so compare the length of these birds
to that of the fish.
Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
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