Ok, as long as someone else was willing to take a stab first, I guess I'll go as well, with the caveat that this is an outstanding photo quiz with varying difficulty in it. :) Agree that there are 3 and only 3 obvious (Mallard, Pintail, Black Duck). Add what appears to be Green-winged Teal in photo 2 and what appears to me to be Scaup in both photos (I'll tentatively agree that the male in photo 1 looks like it might be a Greater). Bird in middle of photo 1 perplexes me with how dark it is. I thought it was a Gadwall at first glance, but wing pattern appears to be Wigeon. Bird seems awfully dark though. So, I'll go with 6 (or 7) as my guess realizing that I probably overlooked something. Mallard, Pintail, Black Duck, Green-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Greater Scaup and probably Lesser Scaup. Mark Monroe Louisville On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Scott and Glenda Record <sgrecord@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I haven't seen any debate so far and I'm dying to know what everyone thinks > are in the photos so I'll start out with an educated guess. First the easy > ones...Mallard, Pintail, Black duck. Now the rest that I'm not so sure > of... American widgeon (1), Green w-teal (1), Blue w-teal (2), Greater > Scaup (1). Total 7 species. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC) > To: BIRDKY > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:21 PM > Subject: [birdky] NEW PHOTO QUIZ > > > > Thanks to Gary Ritchison for posting two photos of a group of waterfowl in > flight. The shots were taken by Rick Seelhorst over South Shore WMA, Greenup > Co., 1 March 2008. The two shots are different images of portions of the > same flying flock. I had Gary include two images because you can see some > individuals better in one than the other. > > How many species of waterfowl can you ID in the two photos combined? I > *think* I know what all the birds are, but I'm sure we'll have a bit of > debate about the identity of a few individuals. Should be interesting :o) > > The images can be viewed at the following link: > > > > > http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/distant_ducks.htm > > > > Note that these images are relatively large in size and will take a couple > of minutes to download if you are on dial-up; you can view a larger size of > the images for better details in the ducks by clicking on the original > images. At the larger size, only a few birds will be visible at any one > time, but you can curse left and right and up and down to view the birds in > detail. > > > > BPB ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx