[nnasnet] Off topic and out of state!

  • From: "Felicity Rask" <jericson7@xxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:34:21 -0500

The bird in the middle of the photo has a brown head with a white cheek. The
pure white feathers also cover the front of the neck. The blue bill with an
orange dot on each side is tucked under the wing. The bird's body is light
brown with darker brown spots.  
I had been watching for about half an hour as this duck swam around and
showed off in the perfect early morning light. Several other birders were
taking photos. By the time I discovered that I too could take photos (using
my shoot and point with my scope)the light had changed and the bird had gone
to sleep!
I was shown how to take the photos by a man who had just arrived from Kansas
to photograph this very same bird. I asked him if he was doing a Big Year.
His answer was no, just that he was expecting to die quite soon from a heart
condition and wanted to get his bird count over 800 before doing so...
I'm always interested in how people start bird watching and what keeps them
at it. Here, at the same time, was a rare answer and a rare bird!
The duck is a White Cheeked Pintail and an unusual visitor from the West
Indies. The bird is not banded so is probably not escaped from a private
collection.
To get your own sighting come to Pelican Island east of Sebastian, Florida -
the first NWR created in the US.
Felicity, from Gloucester VA.
     
 
 

  
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