Barrow's Goldeneyes are diving ducks, and whole groups of goldeneyes will dive at the same time. |
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Female goldeneyes lay eggs in their own nests and in the nests of other female goldeneyes. |
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During migration, goldeneyes stop on large lakes and rivers to feed while they move between breeding and wintering habitats. |
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With her telescope I scanned the ducks and was immediately smitten by the goldeneyes. |
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Also, look for the golden yellow blooms of snakeweed, turpentinebush, goldeneyes, and telegraph plants. |
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It was beside Henry's Fork that we skied and watched goldeneyes, mallards and trumpeter swans floating in the shallows. |
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This year he entered a painting of four common goldeneyes, using materials like glitter, rhinestones, flock, glass microbeads and google eyes. |
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At one point while we were so engaged, seven goldeneyes landed about 100 yards out in the lake. |
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Again the late timing of the survey may have underestimated the abundance of goldeneyes. |
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For nearly a year now, CWS biologists have been using satellite tracking to monitor the movements of seven goldeneyes. |
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More than 70 varieties of birds breed on and around the lake, including the famous ospreys, tufted ducks, goldeneyes, coots, pochards, mallards and widgeons. |
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The morning action continued at a rapid pace with bluebills, buffleheads and a few common goldeneyes coming to the blocks. |
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Some goldeneyes could not be identified to species. |
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Along the Piermont pier, when there was ice in the river earlier in the year, I saw buffleheads and goldeneyes, northern ducks that fly south for the winter. |
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And both were in breeding colors, the buffleheads with bright white head patches and the goldeneyes with shockingly yellow eyes with black-dot pupils. |
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My bag consisted of five lesser scaup, a bufflehead and two Barrow's goldeneyes. |
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We ended up with a mixed bag of harlequins, common goldeneyes, buffleheads, surf scoters and black scoters. |
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With a view to tracking the movements of goldeneyes in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence during the winter, four additional birds were captured in Parc du Bic last November and fitted with satellite tags. |
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Ring-necked ducks, goldeneyes, mergansers, Canada geese, common eiders, northern pintails, black ducks and other species are also present among the flocks of birds that visit the site. |
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Where it enters the lake, a gunner can lean against the bleached skeletons of dead trees to ambush goldeneyes, redheads, canvasbacks, buffleheads and scaup. |
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Falmouth has had both American and Eurasian wigeon this winter, as well as canvasbacks, redheads, greater scaup, harlequins, and Barrow's goldeneyes. |
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Often found in large rafts outside the breeding season, Common Goldeneyes are frequent winter residents in Puget Sound and on large Washington rivers. |
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Most plant dry mass in the diet of Barrow's Goldeneyes consisted of seeds of submergent and emergent macrophytes, particularly those of pondweeds, mare's tails, and bulrushes. |
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Common Goldeneyes are diving ducks and forage mostly under water. |
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