[Maine-birds] Tufted Duck Drake - Merrymeeting Bay

I found a drake Tufted Duck hanging with 10 Ring-Necked Ducks and a solo Greater Scaup (Drake) today at about 12:50.  One fairly OK digiscoped shot. 

It would do little good to pinpoint the precise location, because it's not there anymore, and conditions there relative to melting/moving ice, makes locations rather moot.

Suffice to say it was in a tongue of open water beyond the Abby ice limit, so South of the mouth of the Abby.   There are also many Bald Eagles there, though most seem occupied by goodies found under the ice on the exposed mud banks.  Nevertheless, as one of these passes overhead, all the waterfowl in the fields or open water take off and fly around.  There have to be a million ducks and geese in the bay just now.  In addition to the small group of Ring-necks it was with, there was another raft of them (24 birds) not far away. 

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