Another beautiful day. So I headed out to Herrick's Cove again to see whether I'd have more luck today and could locate the Eurasian Teal or Common Teal. There were several birders already there, a couple with scopes, and after some wait our target bird emerged from behind a dead log on a sandbank. Don Clark let me take a view through his telescope which gave a brilliant image of the duck. The bird vanished shortly after behind the log. There were several GW Teals resting in that area - too far for my lens - but one if not two (I can't be sure, sorry for the lousy photos) had ventured into the water:
Left alone after a while I observed a pair of Northern Shovelers emerge into the open water:
Then I saw a small lone duck in a stretch of water to the right of where we had been looking:
What a thrill! I realized it was the Eurasian Common Teal. Shortly after it took to the air:
I followed it with my camera.
It landed some distance away in the reeds and disappeared from sight.
Happy Birding!
