After searching and not finding the Juniper Titmouse this morning on Dinosaur Ridge I headed south to Chatfield to look for teal. On the pond in the SW corner of Chatfield SP I found what looks like a Hooded Merganser x Common Goldeneye hybrid. I have some not so great digi-scoped and cropped photos. The duck had a head similar to a HOME, but it was all back. The eye looked exactly like the male HOME swimming in the same pond. The bill was long and thin and the head profile from the front was narrow. It had yellow legs. I displayed by flapping and coming off the water like the COGO, but it did not throw its head all the way back like a COGO. Its scapulars remind me of a COGO, but not a lot of white and its sides looked similar to the HOME, but not the same colors.
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/blueskyhapkido/HydridDuck# Map: http://tinyurl.com/yj6svuw Todd Deininger Longmont, CO "Only the muddy fox lives" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds". To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en Visit the CFO Website at: www.cfo-link.org
