25 November 2024
Charity Kheshgi and Jon Woon joined me yesterday at Duck Hole the place we appeared for birds beneath extraordinarily overcast skies. Sadly the geese have been so distant and the sunshine was so poor that we have now no pictures to point out for it. As an alternative I’ve embedded look-alike pictures from Macaulay Library.
Greatest birds have been these very distant geese.
1 Canvasback feminine (pattern photograph above): We contemplated this chicken for a very long time as a result of she was paired with a male ring-necked duck. Sure, she was a canvasback. We have been witnessing future hybridization throughout the Aythya genus.
The Ring-necked Duck entry in Birds of the World consists of eBird information with pictures of hybrids between Ring-necked Geese and Canvasback, Redhead, Tufted Duck, and Nice and Lesser Scaup.
1 Ring-necked duck, male. Simple to determine due to his head form and white striped beak.
1 Hooded merganser, feminine. She saved her crest sleeked again much more than this.
12 Frequent mergansers flew by however have been by no means as near us as this group in good gentle on 9 November.
I’ve put our greatest geese in boldface. See our guidelines on-line at https://ebird.org/guidelines/S203488389.
Duck Hole, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, US
Nov 24, 2024 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Protocol: Touring, 1.2 mile(s)
22 species
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 55
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 30
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) 1 Feminine
Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) 1 Male
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) 1
Frequent Merganser (Mergus merganser) 12
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) 2
Crimson-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 2
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 2
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 4
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 50
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 125 Alongside the street
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 1
Home Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 10
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 3
Darkish-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 12
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 4 That is in all probability a low depend
Track Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 5
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 3
p.s. Right here’s how overcast it was. I took this sky photograph after I received residence.
