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Subject: [SBB] LTDU on Salt Pond A1?
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All:

This morning, Thursday, from about 10:30 to 11:30, I watched a white-headed 
duck diving continuously near the eastern edge of salt pond A1 (the pond just 
north of Shoreline Lake.)  The wind and the waves made viewing very difficult.  
I would have called this a definite Long-tailed Duck, except for the previous 
sightings of a "white-headed" Ruddy Duck in this same area.  I saw neither a 
very long tail, nor a raised stiff-tail; the bird rode low in the water and 
was continuously diving.  However, today's bird also had a mottled 
black-and-white back, with some suggestion of dark, front-to-back streaks, which I didn't 
think was reported on the original RUDU.  If it is a LTDU, it's in a transition 
phase of its complex plumage changes.  I needed better views ... or an expert.

On the golf course south of the lake, there were 2 Ross's Geese in with the 
Canada Geese.

Frank Vanslager 
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