Bird of the Week – Bufflehead
North America’s smallest diving duck is the Bufflehead.
Bufflehead Male, Breeding Plumage
With his dramatically colored head– it looks like a white dome from a distance – this is another easy waterfowl to identify in the field. This duck winters in salt water, but nests in the boreal forest in tree cavities. Or boxes if someone has put a box up near a pond. The kids, at 1-2 days old, jump from the nest cavity to the ground and then follow the hen to the nearest body of water.
The Bufflehead is a close relative of last week’s Goldeneyes.
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Good thang ducks don’t like taters,cuz mikey hit the motherload this year. Dug some kennebecs for the neighbor’s Daughter and SIL and they spit out spuds at almost twice the rate as Pontiac I dug four days ago(and I’m still eating from that hill). Yummy! Yummy. Yummy. 🙂 Come on over and we can roast them like marshmallows over my fire ring.while we wait for sweetcorn to ripen.
I’d rather vote for Bufflehead than HRC for Potus.
me too, mikey. me too.
Ms Zyx and Ms Pi-I found this today. Purty nteresting even if not about birds.
http://www.mindfulteachers.org/2014/07/mindful-teaching-native-american-history-and-life.html
Peaches and Cream sweetcorn in Iowa…it doesn’t get any better than that.
Awww. Too cute! Thanks, WC.
These are smaller than their Goldeneye relatives.
I’ve never gotten close enough to see the green on the male’s head but love watching them.
(Why I only seem to see them when I don’t have my field glasses is a whole nother issue…)