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Moira

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on: November 15, 2009, 07:36:25 PM
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denis

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Reply #1 on: November 15, 2009, 08:13:29 PM
wow! moira!
incredible hoodie! i,ve been looking all over for one of those! guess i,m in the wrong place at the wrong time.
denis
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Reply #2 on: November 15, 2009, 09:51:00 PM
Very nice pictures.

I believe number 3 is a Red-breasted Merganser. It doesn't have a white chin patch and the neck seems to lack a well-defined border between reddish brown and white, even if it's hard to see from this angle. The bill also seems to have less of a hook than Common Merganser.

Here's the mirror image of your picture :)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... n%26um%3D1

/Thomas
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Reply #3 on: November 15, 2009, 10:56:40 PM
Great shots Moira!!
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Reply #4 on: November 16, 2009, 02:18:41 PM
lovely shots

I was to Port Hope
a while back

had a grand time

and Cobourg as well

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Moira

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Reply #5 on: November 16, 2009, 04:14:26 PM
Thanks Denis.  Try Port Hope, bottom of Ontario Street.  This fellow swims with the Mallards there - quite interesting.  Cobourg Harbour is also well worth the trip.  I will be going back to improve on my Long Tail shots (if at first you don't succeed ...!)
Thank you Thouc - I will rename on my Flikr site.
Thanks Meghan and Egret - appreciate your kind words.
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Reply #6 on: November 16, 2009, 04:58:45 PM
thanks moira.
i,m in a photography club here in port perry,and this spring we a fellow,who gave a talk,and showed us some excellent pics,and one of those was a hoodie,taken on the ganaraska river,in port hope,who hung around with mallards! he was saying that the hoodie,s been with those mallards,for a few years now! wow! same bird? what are the odds?
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