Hello Rahne,
I took lots of photos and already ask Dan Victor to put some photos on the
Gallery. I did not know it was you what identified this dusck as a Smew.I
wrote a note to Dennis the origin of this bird and other birders saw it too
three years ago.Dennis alerted me on this duck ealier. On Saturday on
Bowerman Basin looking at the Tufted Duck,i run in to Paul Cozen the one
what was running the hot-line than for the Seattle Audubon. He remembered
the call about a Smew.I was going down too and know it was a Hybrid of some
kind.Some birder from Olympia i believe saw this bird this year. It is the
same bird from three years ago.It is sure a verry flasy bird.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma

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> From: Rahne Kirkham <rahne at mindspring.com>
> To: tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: hybrid at Ruston Way
> Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 7:37 PM
>
> I saw the Bufflehead/Goldeneye hybrid (known in my family as Kirkham's
> Greennape) off of Ruston Way today in exactly the same place I saw him
three
> years ago when I mis-identified him as a Smew. He was in the company of
some
> female Goldeneyes (couldn't tell which kind). He was diving continuously.
> We (my niece, Cyndi, and I) also saw a Bald Eagle sitting on an old post
> very close to shore and an Eared Grebe (standing out from the plentiful
> Horned Grebes) and a Red-necked Grebe in breeding plumage. I wish someone
> would take a picture of Kirkham's Greennape and put it on the web for me!
> Rahne Kirkham
> Federal Way, Washington
> rahne at mindspring.com
> "Summoned or not summoned, God is present"
> Carl Jung