Subject: [Tweeters] ID Large dark duck at Lk Samm St Park, Sunset Beach?
Date: Fri Oct 16 15:00:54 PDT 2020
From: Carl Haynie - hayncarl at gmail.com


>From what I have been able to gather, it is a Muscovy Duck x Mallard

(hybrid). I took a good photo of it the other day in this checklist:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S74756394

Carl Haynie
Sammamish, WA

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:35 PM Hilary Barnes <habarnes at earthlink.net>
wrote:


> If you are out and about in this area, I'd appreciate any feedback on this

> "odd duck."

>

> Sally Lawrence and I were out "social birding" from 8-12:30 this am at

> Lake Sammamish State Park, and had a solo mystery bird sitting on top of

> the far buoy line at Sunset Beach. It was a very duck, with a "Burnt

> Sienna" body and dark brown back, with a dull blue wing patch. Maybe a

> lonely Cinnamon Teal?

>

> It was also my impression that this seemed to be a large duck, but that

> may be due to it resting on the buoy line, and not in the water. But it's

> even more unlikely to be an American Black Duck.

>

> I checked ebird for this location, but can't find a good match among the

> observations. No camera this time, and bird too distant for decent

> cellphone image. Drat!

>

>

> Hilary Barnes

> habarnes at earthlink.net

> 206-331-6058 cell

>

>

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