I'll echo Dave's observations. My impressions of this distant Scoter were long,
low, heavy bodied bird. The head shape not as upright and rounded and the white
wing patch more of a horizontal stripe than vertical. Kevin's good photos will
keep me on higher alert this week, if she lasts that
I stopped at East Shore Park today in hopes of seeing the reported White-winged
Scoter. Instead, I found a lone female Lesser Scaup with a fishing lure in her
mouth and apparently fishing line wrapped around her wing exposing the white at
the bases of her secondaries. I have put a few photos
Just FYI, the White-winged Scoter I saw on the CBC Jan 1st was an adult male
with a flock of goldeneye far to the north of the red jetty not apparent
today.
KEN
Ken Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2412
607-342-4594 (cell)
I wonder if this entangled duck isn't a hazard for Eagles?
-Geo
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The bird which I counted as a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER at East Shore Park today was initially on the water far to the northwest. Bob McGuire had been watching it and thought that's what it was, although I was initially unsatisfied with the view. About 9am it flew much farther north low over the lake
