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Sorry for the late post. On April 23rd around 8:15, I saw, my guess, a = Northern Pintail and Mallard hybrid (male.) It had the same overall = shape (tail curls, ect.) of a mallard, yet it had a darker gray body = like a Pintail and it had white on its neck and chest. It was hard to = say what shade of green its head was (because it was so dark), but it = was actually more like a N. Shoveler head's green. Anyways, it was = swimming with a couple of mallard drakes and in size comparison, it was = slightly smaller. If anyone thinks that it's a different combination, = please e-mail me. Earlier (while I was attending soccer practice), my = mom said she saw a single male Common Merganser. Also present was a = large snapping turtle. This was at Hidden Valley Park off of Boone = Avenue in New Hope. If anyone needs more specific directions, e-mail me = on that, too.=20 Good Birding to All~ Alyssa DeRubeis Golden Valley, Hennepin Co. ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C667B4.1EDB2390 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Sorry for the late post. On April 23rd = around 8:15,=20 I saw, my guess, a Northern Pintail and Mallard hybrid (male.) It had = the same=20 overall shape (tail curls, ect.) of a mallard, yet it had a darker gray = body=20 like a Pintail and it had white on its neck and chest. It was hard = to say=20 what shade of green its head was (because it was so dark), but it was = actually=20 more like a N. Shoveler head's green. Anyways, it was swimming = with a=20 couple of mallard drakes and in size comparison, it was slightly = smaller. If=20 anyone thinks that it's a different combination, please e-mail=20 me. Earlier (while I was attending soccer practice), my mom said = she saw a=20 single male Common Merganser. Also present was a large snapping=20 turtle. This was at Hidden Valley Park off of Boone Avenue in New = Hope. If=20 anyone needs more specific directions, e-mail me on that, too. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Good Birding to All~</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Alyssa DeRubeis</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Golden Valley, Hennepin=20 Co.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0079_01C667B4.1EDB2390--