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Anyone happen to be at Eddies Cove East next day or so, pls check for possible unusual duck
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John & Ivy Gibbons
Jul 19, 2016, 7:01:11 PM7/19/16
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We briefly saw a female-type duck at Eddies Cove East today around noon that got our attention.
Approx teal-sized with a distinctive dark line thru the eye and extending both back and forward of the eye. Also a whitish eyebrow and some white in the face below the eye. There was a clustered flock of about a dozen Green-winged teals about 75 feet away but it seemed separate from them. Also they seemed quiet and relaxed but this one was extremely skittish. We were some distance away and didn't get out of the car or do anything to disturb it; yet it seemed to know we were looking at it. It put its neck straight up and started to slowly swim away while all the GWTE stayed put. We managed to get a scope thru the car window on it for perhaps 30 seconds before it flew up and away, all the way north across the bottom of Eddies Cove, well beyond the northern-most wharf.
Looks were too brief so I won't speculate. And I don't think, at this stage, it is worth a special trip to check it out. Unfortunately Ivy and I are out of the picture for the next 3 days at least. So, if anyone does happen to be passing by, you might want to take a quick look.
Here are the exact directions: As you drive on 430, north thru Eddies Cove East, take the gravel road (the former main road) on your left at the end of the big bridge. Drive along the gravel road until, in just a few hundred feet, the shallow cove is on your left. The GWTE feed in the bottom muck at low tide; today the tide was high and the birds were resting in the middle of the cove.
Approx teal-sized with a distinctive dark line thru the eye and extending both back and forward of the eye. Also a whitish eyebrow and some white in the face below the eye. There was a clustered flock of about a dozen Green-winged teals about 75 feet away but it seemed separate from them. Also they seemed quiet and relaxed but this one was extremely skittish. We were some distance away and didn't get out of the car or do anything to disturb it; yet it seemed to know we were looking at it. It put its neck straight up and started to slowly swim away while all the GWTE stayed put. We managed to get a scope thru the car window on it for perhaps 30 seconds before it flew up and away, all the way north across the bottom of Eddies Cove, well beyond the northern-most wharf.
Looks were too brief so I won't speculate. And I don't think, at this stage, it is worth a special trip to check it out. Unfortunately Ivy and I are out of the picture for the next 3 days at least. So, if anyone does happen to be passing by, you might want to take a quick look.
Here are the exact directions: As you drive on 430, north thru Eddies Cove East, take the gravel road (the former main road) on your left at the end of the big bridge. Drive along the gravel road until, in just a few hundred feet, the shallow cove is on your left. The GWTE feed in the bottom muck at low tide; today the tide was high and the birds were resting in the middle of the cove.
pdli...@gmail.com
Jul 19, 2016, 9:43:57 PM7/19/16
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What are you thinking - female Garganey?
John & Ivy Gibbons
Jul 20, 2016, 5:48:23 AM7/20/16
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On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 11:13:57 PM UTC-2:30, pdli...@gmail.com wrote:
> What are you thinking - female Garganey?
Yes, that was my thought. But I really didn't have a good enough look to say that. Just a brief look thru bino's and an even briefer one thru the scope. Camera and lens in the back but no opportunity to get to that.
> What are you thinking - female Garganey?
We may get a chance to have another on the weekend.
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