What is that duck in the left foreground. I assume it must be one of the two Scaups. But the dark bill isn't shown in my field guide. The reason I'm asking is that I saw several of the same plumage at Lake Padden recently.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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From: "Marv Breece" <mbreece at earthlink.net>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:47:37 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] water scoter


A week ago I spent some time in Whatcom County. I found all 3 scoter species close to shore both at Birch Bay and Semiahmoo. I took a lot of photos. Nothing really very good. I took them mainly for review and to get to know scoters a bit better.

I was surprised at one photo I didn't know that I had taken. A White-winged Scoter had disappeared below the surface. The air space where the bird's wings had been were now occupied by water; in an almost perfect reproduction of the outline of the wings.

http://www.pbase.com/marvbreece/image/130286697


Marv Breece
Seattle, WA
mbreece at earthlink.net
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