Hi Everyone
Today, October 30, 2005 at around 8:30a.m., we observed an adult male
Common x Barrow's Goldeneye hybrid along the Ottawa River at Remic Rapids.
It was in a small flock of Common Goldeneye and 1 adult male Barrow's
Goldeneye. The bird is very similar to the individual that over wintered on
the Rideau River near the Tennis Club last year. Today's individual has no
black spur, the facial crescent mark was small and the checkered pattern on
its sides showed little black.
good birding
Bruce
Bruce Di Labio
400 Donald B. Munro Drive
P.O.Box 538
Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0
(613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell
Di Labio Birding Website
Courses and Field Trips
http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
Directions: For the Barrow's Goldeneye: take Parkdale Ave. north
from Hwy. 417 to the Western Parkway and travel west turning right off
parkway at Remic Rapids Lookout. You can view the goldeneyes in the
rapids from the lookout.
See OFO's photo section for last winters photos of hybrid goldeneye..
