[SBB] Mtn. View salt pond A2W

["Patricia Kenny" <[[email protected]]>]

This morning, 2/2/2007, Roland Kenner and I walked along the southern edge 
of salt pond A2W in Mountain View.  There were quite a few ducks on the pond 
close enough to scope well.  We had 7 sightings of male EURASIAN WIGEONs 
with at least 5 different individuals.  There was one pair of REDHEADs in 
the middle of the pond.  There was one SNOW GOOSE among CANADA GEESE on one 
of the levees separating A1 and A2W.

One interesting duck on A2W seemed to be a male Mallard hybrid.  The flanks 
looked like mallard, but the edge of the folded wing wasn't dark; there was 
a mallard-like dark streak down the middle of the back.  The breast was 
smudgy dark brown, poorly delineated, with no white ring around the neck. 
The head was dark with glints of mallard green in good light, with a brown 
patch below the eye ending in a lighter, almost tan, spot behind and below 
the eye.  The bill was dark with light edges.  We guess it to be a hybrid 
with a Gadwall (a "Brewer's Duck").

Take care,

Pat Kenny 


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