We are there now. The bird is farther out, with a group of other
Green-winged Teal along the edge of the ice in amongst Aythya. It appears
to be a EURASIAN X AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL--bold white horizontal
shoulder stripe as in Eurasian but with a faint trace of the vertical
shoulder stripe,
Livia and I just found a EURASIAN X AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL intergrade
off the Towpath Machine Shop in Cayuga, south of Mud Lock.
Jay
On Mar 22, 2014 9:25 AM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote:
At East Shore park now.
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Chris Wood
eBird Neotropical Birds Project Leader
By the way, I was not able to find the Common Teal yesterday morning.
The teal numbers were way down from a few days ago (about 15 instead
of close to 80), but a lot of water had opened up on the east end
where there is a lot of vegetation, and a lot of the dabblers were in
there, so I could
The teal was still there when I left at 9:45. All the ducks took
flight shortly after I posted, but luckily almost all of them settled
in again after a few minutes. When I left, the best viewing was from
Rt. 38 at Hart Road, where you can pull off on the north side or park
on Hart Road and scope