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All: Marie Reid of Eastern Passage e-mailed me Thursday to report a mixed flock of Green-winged, Eurasian (Common), and hybrid teal on the ice of Cow Bay, HRM, that she had photographed on 22 March. The photos were too distant and images of too low resolution to be certain of anything. On Friday a.m. I scanned Cow Bay from three vantage points and found lots of other waterfowl, but no teal. Then this a.m. I received from her a very large file of the teal, and by severly cropping and up-pixellating the images, I produced a collage of all 24 teal from the original photo, and indeed, among them were a "pure" Eurasian, two good hybrids (with white streak on both scapular and foreflank ), two probable hybrids based on their weak foreflank stripes and distinct white on lower border of the green "face mask"0, and one suggestive bird that seems to show beginnings of a scapular streak, but is cut off at the edge of the oruiiginal image. "Somethin's happenin out there." I am going to put this collage, with the interesting teal labelled, to the waterfowl folder in NS-RBA photos, when I get Marie Reid's permission to do so. Marie also sent photos of an Indigo Bunting that turned up yesterday, 4 April, at the Reid's feeders in E. Passage. Cheers, Ian McLaren
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