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| Northern Shovelers, Quabbin Park, MA, April 4, 2012 |
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| Northern Shovelers, Quabbin Park, MA, April 4, 2012 |
On a brief stop this morning at Winsor Dam before work I had a species I had never seen at Quabbin before: Northern Shovelers. I had a pair together out on the calm waters. I managed a distant digiscope shot with my iPhone. It is an distant, blurry but identifiable shot of the pair. It is quite rare now that I get a new species for Quabbin. It is indeed odd that I have had Sooty Tern and White-tailed Tropicbird at Quabbin before I had a Northern Shoveler! In addition to the shovelers I had two pairs of Bufflehead, four Black Ducks, four Mallards and a single Canada Goose plus an immature Bald Eagle catching a large fish just off shore as well as an adult eagle on the nest.
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| Tagged Canada Goose, Barton's Cove, Turners Falls, MA, April 4, 2012 |
The information on the tagged goose I saw last week at Barton's Cove came back yesterday and here is what I found about the goose. She was tagged on July 5, 2011 in Varennes, Quebec (about 10 miles northeast of Montreal). She certainly has travelled around a bit so far. Always interesting to see where various tagged birds came from.
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