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Posted: 27 Mar 2017

Taken: 27 Mar 2017

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'Old Squaw' (Eisente)

'Old Squaw' (Eisente)
Two years ago thousands of Old Squaw diving ducks came into the river, the Great Lakes were 93% frozen over and these ducks need open water to feed. The river is being kept ice free by many icebreakers from Canada and Michigan.

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 Ronald Losure
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What a handsome bird. This is in the St. Clair River, I suppose. I have never seen these.
7 years ago.
Doerthe club has replied to Ronald Losure club
They don't come down farther than the river, because they breed in Alaska and northern Canada and do not need warmer weather as long as they have open water to feed. This winter I only saw a few of these beautiful, very small diving ducks, the lakes were open. They are very shy birds and difficult to photograph because they dive every few minutes. Usually they stay in groups of a dozen or so birds and they always dive together, now you see them, now you don't. I read in the German Wikipedia entry that there are millions of 'Eisenten' in Siberia.
7 years ago.

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