Date: 1/11/25 6:47 pm From: William Huser via groups.io <billfhuser...> Subject: [sd-birds] Fort Randall Dam, SD birds
Sat., Jan. 11, 2025, 0900-1130
*Barrow's Goldeneye*, 2 males, 1 probable female. Continuing birds, one male above the dam in open water near power plant penstocks. Another male and female, probably of this species, were below the power plant sluice near the concrete wall. *Long-tailed Duck*, 3 female/immatures, all above the dam near the penstocks. *Common Goldeneye x Hooded Merganser* hybrid, 1 adult male with bright white breast, grayish flank, dark head with no white spot or crest, narrow, merganser shape bill. *Glaucous Gull*, 1 first winter immature. Large gull with Herring Gulls loafing on lake ice, and later in flight. White plumage with pale beige mottling, white primaries and tail, large flat head with large pinkish bill with dark tip, pink legs.
Jerry Probst, South Sioux City Bill Huser, South Sioux City