BY PAUL
KRUPIN SPECIAL TO THE HERALD
UPDATED
JANUARY 14, 2019 09:04 AM
Elke
Davis may be relatively new to bird watching, but she earned another set of
wings this month.
She went
bird watching at Hood Park on Jan. 4 and made quite the find for a birder.
She saw a
Eurasian wigeon — a red-headed duck that breeds in the northernmost parts of
Europe and Asia. It migrates to southern Asia and Africa and is a rare winter
visitor to the United States on the mid-Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
“It was about noon on a gray cloudy day,” she
said. “I scanned the water with my binoculars and there he was.”
Imagine
that. A red-headed duck from Russia surrounded by a bunch of American wigeons
in Kennewick.
It was
not Davis’ first time spotting an unusual bird.
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