Here is an update on the Common Pochard from Larry Master (& some photographs).
Joan Collins Long Lake, NY From: Larry Master [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: Common Pochard images From: Larry Master [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:28 AM To: '[email protected]' Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'Chris Rimmer'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'John Marshall'; 'Frank Gill' Subject: RE: Common Pochard images I was told this morning that the Pochard photo link didn't work. Please try this longer one: https://plus.google.com/photos/112372647343297818289/albums/5829050524084151 633?authkey=CKT3w_rgm-iXCQ Larry From: Larry Master [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:44 PM To: '[email protected]' Cc: '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'Chris Rimmer'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'John Marshall'; 'Frank Gill' Subject: Common Pochard images Some grainy downloadable images (taken at 1456 mm equivalent and then savagely cropped) of the Common Pochard taken under the Vermont side of the Lake Champlain bridge this morning are posted at http://tinyurl.com/akn5bsz. I also noted two male Tufted Ducks (an adult and a first winter bird), two Barrow's Goldeneyes, a Glaucous Gull, White-winged Scoter, Gadwalls, and hundreds of Greater and Lesser Scaup, Common Mergansers, Common Goldeneyes, Mallards, Black Ducks, Redpolls, Bald Eagle, Great Black-backed, Herring, and Ring-billed Gulls. In other years we have noted Tufted Ducks on the New York side of the lake (e.g., off Ausable Marsh in the spring) with an occasional "Redhead" mixed in with hundreds of scaup, goldeneyes, etc., as today. I know that I have always glossed over the "Redheads" as just that and not given a thought to the possibility of Common Pochard. That will now change. Given tonight's deep freeze (it's -19 F and dropping at our house as I write this), I strongly suspect the water near the bridge will freeze up tonight and the ducks will move off shore and/or up lake and not be as easily viewable tomorrow. Larry Master Lake Placid, NY [email protected] www.masterimages.org <http://www.masterimages.org/> www.intervalelowlands.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
