[Maine-birds] Strawberry Island

I had a Condo Association meeting for a prperty I manage in Kenebunk today so I snuck over to Strawberry Island on my way home.  When I got back to my car I saw an interesting Goldeneye.  I don't know enough about their plumage cycles and maturation process so I will make the assumption that I saw a juvenile drake CoGo, but the feather pattern on the back was much more like a Drake Barrows. 

I have uploaded two images for ID to the Maine Birds Flickr site (all are welcomed to join.)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/mainebirdlist/

The duck was backlit so I did my best to compensate.  The head shape is CoGo,  The cheek spot is not well defined, but more similar to CoGo than BaGo. 

Take a look and let me know if we are talking hybrid here.

Cheers,

Chuck

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