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Subject: [SBB] Long-tailed Duck? Maybe not.
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All,

Regarding my post from last night of Long-tailed Duck in Salt pond
1A....

It's entirely possible we were seeing the "white-headed" Ruddy Duck
others have reported. We observed the bird for quite a long time, but it
was at a great distance and we hadn't read the earlier reports of the
irregularly colored Ruddy. The bird we saw slept  most of the time, only
raising its head once or twice. Both Kelly and I were confused by the
markings but eventually identified it as LTDU. We probably didn't have
good enough looks to identify the bird properly though. What we saw was
the following:

A smallish duck with a white head that had mostly dark sides and back
but a pointed tail held at an angle. Some white appeared near the water
line and under the tail, and we observed a subtle pattern on the back
that was difficult to make out but visible in certain light. I
interpreted them as mottling that suggested faint braces. Once the head
was up (for just a moment) we saw a stumpy bill and some dark around the
eye. In retrospect, we may have been wrong about the identification. It
certainly had us convinced, especially since this is the area where we
had seen Long-tailed Ducks a previous winter.

Sorry for the mis-information, I'll do better next time.

Matthew "it was there a second ago" Dodder
http://www.birdguy.net


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