[wisb] Lake Michigan - Milwaukee
- From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Wisbirdn" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:19:52 -0600
There was a huge flock of common goldeneye just off of Bradford Beach and
Lake Park this afternoon. Mixed in are some greater scaup, a few
buffleheads, and a pair of red-breasted mergansers. Wave action was steady
and they were feeding actively, but I scanned for a while trying to find any
different goldeneyes, without luck.
However, there is an apparent common goldeneye X hooded merganser hybrid at
South Shore Yacht Club. It looks generally like a male goldeneye, but the
head is blockier and is all dark (no white spot), and the flanks were gray.
The bill is more merganser than goldeneye, long and thin. Very interesting.
Jym Mooney, Milwaukee
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