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Eurasian Wigeon, Tyrell Co NC



Saturday a group of Chapel Hill area birders (Shelley Theye, Lee Van Malssen, Patsy Bailey and myself) went to admire the Remaley's Black-headed Grosbeak, and continued on for some fruitless Dovekie searching at the coast. The most interesting sighting there was a dead 57-ft Fin Whale on the beach at milepost 5 in Kitty Hawk.

On the return trip we found some rain-flooded fields along US64 in eastern Tyrell Co that were covered with a few thousand puddle ducks, predominantly Northern Pintails. Most notable was a single male Eurasian Wigeon, seen very well not far from the road, on the south side.

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Kent Fiala
near Chapel Hill, NC