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--Apple-Mail-2--744571808 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed JAN. 26, 2012 - Port Williams sewage ponds again at about 1:30 p.m. This time I approached the ponds stealthily, parking below the building then skulking up the bank and using the building as a shield, so that any goldeneyes would not immediately flush off the north pond. It worked: I think there were 7 goldeneyes, 3 females and 4 males. Males were busy courting, and all 7 birds were busily diving, thus counting them was a challenge. The males and 2 females were all common goldeneyes, but, as Richard said earlier, the 3rd female had an all-orange beak. Thus she was very probably a Barrow's goldeneye, although perhaps not a pure one. The head-shape on this female was a bit different also from the two female commons (longer? from front to back). I didn't see any gulls there, and the mallards were not even scanned this time. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-2--744571808 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>JAN. = 26, 2012 - Port Williams sewage ponds</b> again at about 1:30 p.m. = This time I approached the ponds stealthily, parking below the building = then skulking up the bank and using the building as a shield, so that = any goldeneyes would not immediately flush off the north pond. It = worked: I think there were<b> 7 goldeneyes</b>, 3 females and 4 = males. Males were busy courting, and all 7 birds were busily = diving, thus counting them was a challenge. The males and 2 = females were<b> all common goldeneyes, but,</b> as Richard said earlier, = the <b>3rd female had an all-orange beak</b>. Thus she was very = probably a Barrow's goldeneye, although perhaps not a pure one. = The head-shape on this female was a bit different also from the two = female commons (longer? from front to back).</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">I didn't = see any gulls there, and the mallards were not even scanned this = time.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-2--744571808--
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