CObirders,
Julie and I will tread, lightly or not, with Doug on the Tufted Duck
being a female. We looked at as many field guides as he did, I'm sure,
the bird being a lifer for us and the word being that it was an
immature male. All evidence points to female for us, too. She has
quite a coiffure, but her tuft isn't as long as most illustrations.
Perhaps she's an immature, but she's a female in our opinion.
Birder's luck has not been kind to us recently, until today. We were
in Longmont for an eye exam. Cell phones are not permitted in the
office, so I left mine in the car. That was about the time my birding
buddy Gary started calling me about the tufted duck. My brain was as
dilated as my eyes, I guess, because I failed to check my phone back
at the car.
We shopped and dillied and dallied. We were returning by back roads
west of Hygiene when we spotted Gary and the Estes Park group. We
stopped. He rushed up to ask if we'd seen the Tufted Duck. And that's
birder's luck.
Scott Roederer
Estes Park
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