ML267548831

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Both appear to be adults (though maybe the same adult and juvenile seen in September about 20 miles away). Bright blue eyes. Smaller than a DCCO with a longer more pronounced tail. Clear white V pattern around the yellow throat with a shorter bill (getting darker and more great toward the end) than a DCCO. Also, the yellow around the bill did not extend all the way to the eye but there was black feathers between the eye and the bill which differentiates these birds from a DCCO which would show yellow all the way from the bill to the eye. Roughly the same size a a mallard, seen in pictures. Could possibly been the same bird(s) seen at a different location last month, who knows. First seen with a group of DCCO. When they flew they seemed to have a slightly faster wing beat than DCCO and flew together and in front of DCCO. Later spotted again, this time only one bird by an Egret.

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