Dedrick Benz, Dave Bartkey, Andy Nyhus and I are looking at what looks to be at least 75% a Cinnamon Teal at the Albany sewage ponds. The bird is associating with Blue-winged Teals in the northwest corner of the easternmost pond. The bird looks very much like a pure adult male Cinnamon Teal except for a hint of white at the base of the bill as well as a lighter reddish color where the hip patch would be on a Blue-winged Teal. If this bird is a hybrid (and we're not certain that it is), we're thinking it might be a second-generation bird where one of the parents was a pure bird and the other parent was a 50-50 hybrid. There is also an early Hudsonian Godwit flying around the ponds along with a few other shorebirds. Bob Dunlap bobthebirdman.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html