Checklist S153902533

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Owner Michael Hoit

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Effort

Protocol:  Stationary
  • Observers:  1

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Viewing from road to graveyard on west side.

Cloud 6/8, wind N 3-4, 10°, 971hPa

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Observations

  1. Number observed:  43
  2. Number observed:  11
  3. Number observed:  39
  4. Number observed:  6
  5. Number observed:  45
  6. Eurasian/American Wigeon

    Number observed:  1

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    Distant bird in northern arm bearing a decent resemblance to American Wigeon. In female-type plumage (age uncertain), always standing out from accompanying Eurasian Wigeon on combination of salmony-orange flanks contrasting with greyish head and breast. Hint of a dark patch extending back from behind the eye. In flight, upperwing coverts looked silvery-pale with at least one more pronounced bar - quite eye-catching, but I'm not sure which species it suits better! Axillaries never looked strikingly white, but the angle wasn't ideal to assess this. Range and strong light really made this a tricky bird to get a handle on.

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  7. Number observed:  35
  8. Number observed:  70
  9. Number observed:  16

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    Usual

  10. Number observed:  1

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    Heard

  11. Number observed:  3
  12. Number observed:  1
  13. Number observed:  3
  14. Number observed:  1
  15. Number observed:  25
  16. Number observed:  4
  17. Number observed:  2
  18. Number observed:  1
  19. Number observed:  1
  20. Number observed:  1
  21. Number observed:  5
  22. Number observed:  1
  23. Number observed:  15
  24. Number observed:  2
  25. Number observed:  1
  26. Number observed:  2
  27. Number observed:  3
  28. Number observed:  2
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