Documentation on Baikal Teal below. River S Unit of Ridgefield NWR is open
from 6 am until 6 pm. You must stay in your car on the River S Unit (except
at check-in kiosk and blind), but Schwartz Lake is relatively close to the
road, with good, unobstructed views.

Scott Carpenter
Portland, Oregon

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From: Corrinne Crawford <cvmcrawford at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Subject: [obol] More on Baikal Teal at Ridgefield
To: obol at oregonbirdwatch.org


Hi all,
In response to some questions about the Baikal Teal we saw today at
Ridgefield, here are some details. We saw an unusual duck that we couldn't
identify, and we at first assumed it was a hybrid of some sort. But we
couldn't come up with any likely combination to account for what we saw--the
white line around the entire dark head, the green and cream markings on the
face, the vertical white bar similar to that on a green-winged teal. The
teal was floating on Schwartz Lake among several pintails. After watching
the bird for 20-30 minutes and drawing it for future reference, we began
looking through several field guides we had in the car, and found Peterson's
illustration of the male Baikal Teal that had all of the details we had
noted. We took several photos (not that great) as the duck drifted nearer,
and they are now posted on Flickr. We hope others more expert than we are
will be able to see and photograph the bird.
We found the teal on Schwartz Lake, between markers 12 and 13, on the auto
tour loop of the River S unit. It was still there when we left at about 3
pm this afternoon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34956104 at N04/sets/72157613212484888/

Corrinne and Bryan Crawford

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