Photos of the handsome drake COMMON GOLDENEYE x HOODED MERGANSER hybrid in Columbus can be found at the links below (Thanks again to Alex Champagne for finding it and giving me a heads up!). http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16903884 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljhurtado/12485487193/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljhurtado/12485834254/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljhurtado/12485357165/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauljhurtado/12485357075/in/photostream/ Hopefully this bird sticks around and poses for better photos -- these are really handsome birds!! :-) Good birding, -Paul Hurtado On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Paul Hurtado <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > A Hooded Merganser x Common Goldeneye hybrid was reported by Alex > Champagne today at Griggs Reservoir in Columbus. I'll post pics layer if I > can refund the bird. Also, 25+ Common Mergansers continue there and/or > along the river. > > Good birding, > -Paul Hurtado > -- Paul J. Hurtado Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/ Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/ E-mail: [log in to unmask] Webpage: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
