I had trouble with the link, (got a 404 error), but this one seems to work:
http://www.facebook.com/SouthPlattePark On Mar 2, 4:25 pm, Skot Latona <skotl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Volunteer Justin Crom took a photo of an odd merganser on Saturday at South > Platte Park. Photo is posted atwww.facebook.com/southplattepark. The > trailing bird is a typical common merganser, the lead one has a few oddities: > A long dark-colored tassel, black wing primaries(?) showing, and a > female/juvenile grey rump on an otherwise male-colored bird. I SUSPECT this > is a bird coming into male breeding plumage, but would have thought the > rust-colored head feathers and crest would molt off into the shorter > iridescent green head feathers rather than there being a stage with a long, > yet dark tassel shown here. Comparing to online images, pre-adult males > typically seem much more splotchy in their color change from gray to white. > And is the black of the wing showing just a factor of the long white > tertials(?) seen on the 2nd bird having not acheived sufficient length? > > The birds were seen approximately a mile north of the Carson Nature Center in > Littleton, in the large river bend near the wildlife area trail at the Park's > north border but were not present when I went to look for them today. Many > mergansers are out on the south end of Cooley Lake visible from the mineral > sidewalk each morning and evening, but haven't spotted it there yet either. > > Thanks! > > Skot Latona > > Littleton > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email > service.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds". To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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
