Waterfowl Migration

[Storm]

Saw a flock of snow geese fly overhead at night and heard some specks fly over in the metro along the Mississippi. Migration is certainly in full swing at least in central

MN with majority of snow gone and flooded fields/rivers. I’ve been enjoying looking around and seeing the new faces in town for a couple weeks at least. 

 

Even saw my first mallard/pintail hybrid pictured below.

Edited March 31, 2019 by Storm

[smurfy]

Awesome pictures!!!

[Wanderer]

That hybrid is really cool!  Agree with smurfy, awesome pics!

[Hoonahhick2]

The "hybred" looks suspiciously like a merganser to me.

[delcecchi]

On 4/6/2019 at 11:25 AM, Hoonahhick2 said:

The "hybred" looks suspiciously like a merganser to me.

I thought that too, but I think the hybrid is further down....

[Wanderer]

Top photo is a hen hooded merg.

 

Red head

 

Swan

 

hybrid

 

Goldeneye 

 

[Storm]

 

On 4/6/2019 at 11:25 AM, Hoonahhick2 said:

The "hybred" looks suspiciously like a merganser to me.

Wanderer has it correct the hybrid is second from the bottom. For some reason the post shuffled the pictures around.