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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: rcflier on November 15, 2012, 07:36:34 PM

Title: Port Credit -
Post by: rcflier on November 15, 2012, 07:36:34 PM

Three female Red-breasted mergansers in the mouth of the Credit

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and 11 Buffleheads ( 5 male, 6 female) in the pond at Saddington Park
Male
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xKwPosaRmes/UKVljMreUqI/AAAAAAAAI4c/ZouyeuTlOGo/s576/DSC_4021.JPG)
Female
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DOibNP4QtzM/UKVlRdIxQsI/AAAAAAAAI4U/qXRdgbvD0d4/s576/DSC_4006.JPG)

A nasty goose was giving them some grief!
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Title: Re: Port Credit -
Post by: thouc on November 15, 2012, 10:37:26 PM

Nice pictures.
I think the females are Common Mergansers, the bill doesn't look super-thin and the border between brown and white looks fairly defined.

Title: Re: Port Credit -
Post by: rcflier on November 17, 2012, 12:01:52 PM

Thomas,  I'm sticking with Red-breasted. Note the double "rough" crest on head and the white patch on the wing (previous pic). Also, the rusty colour on the head seems to "blend" into the neck colour with no definate transition as in common merganser.  

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