[EBB Sightings] [Fwd: [NBB] central bay hybrid merganse....

Glen Tepke sent from the NBB list:

> 1. apparent Hooded Merganser x Goldeneye hybrid at Lake Merritt in
> Oakland (a bird discussed last year?)

If it's the same bird (and how many could there be?), this is probably 
its fifth year at the lake. (Or fourth, anyway; I'm a little hazy on 
whether it was two or three years back that it was visible long enough 
for lines of scopes to appear on the 12th Street bridge, and someone 
posted a pic of an immature hybrid drake seen there the year before 
that.) It'd be good to know where it was seen - probably up by 12th 
Street where it's mostly been in the past, but it was around the islands 
at least once.

I walked out to the nature center and back to the Embarcadero yesterday 
around noon, and the birds looked pretty good; more or less usual 
numbers of scaup and more or less usual amount of grooming. But I saw 
only one goldeneye and no bufflehead at all - hope that doesn't reflect 
a pattern....

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