Thursday 21 January 2016

[cobirds] Aythya diving ducks, Boulder County

Hello birders,


I posted a short video to CFO's Facebook page yesterday. For you non-Facebook holdouts, it is below on YouTube.
As Ted mentioned recently, the ice is closing in at Erie Lake/Reservoir, which is near the northeast corner of Arapahoe and highway 287—trailhead on the east side of 287. So it's fun to see the waterfowl close up. Yesterday afternoon I saw a lot of genus Aythya diving ducks—ring-necked, canvasback, and redheads—looking like a conveyor belt or carnival shooting gallery. (They also reminded me a little of participants at a CFO convention buffet line: "Line up, don't shove, come back for seconds.")

Is this activity about eating, pecking order, or "irrational exuberance?"

https://youtu.be/6j8cJJcTLAc

Cheers,
Tom Wilberding
Littleton, CO

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