Hello Fellow Birders, Saw a few interesting variants during the MVCF this past weekend: - A melanisitic Lesser Sand Hill Crane whose neck and head feathers looked 'terrible'. Speculation was that it might have feather lice. - A white-headed Redhead duck. This year-old female was a real trick to identify; my companion and I finally pegged her as a partially leucistic female Redhead because she was in the company of a standard male Redhead and her body feathers were consistent with a female Redhead. But how, you might ask, did we know she was a year-old bird? Well, when I described her to a USFWS person who works on the Refuge he said he'd banded a juvenile female Redhead with a white head last year! - A Cinammon/Blue-winged Teal hybrid was seen and photographed by several people (not me, I just saw the photos). Tidbits: - There were still all three species of Rosy-finches at the Hochstettler property. - Lots of Mountain Bluebirds moving through. - A paucity of raptor species, but lots of Red-tailed Hawks and Great-horned Owls. One Prairie Falcon, one Bald Eagle, One Rough-legged Hawk, a couple of American Kestrels. I saw no Ferruginous Hawks, Merlins, Peregrines or Golden eagles - all species I've seen there in past years. Keep Smilin', Kevin Corwin Sent from my Remington Rand Typewriter via my Rotary Dial Wall Phone
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