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Red-throated Loons
Mystic River, Assembly Square, Somerville, Massachusetts
Red-breasted Mergansers
Niles Pond, Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Japanese White-eye 暗錄繍眼
If cherry blossoms bring out appreciative Chinese in droves to the parks in Taipei, cherry blossoms combined with Japanese White-eyes draw out the photographers. These particular cherries flanked a nearly 100 yard row of evergreens off the west side of the Sun Yat Sen Memorial and photographers positioned themselves and their substantial tripods along the entire line waiting for the flock to work itself back and forth through the line. The sound of clicking camera shutters moved and crested like a slow motion sound wave from one end of the cherry trees to the other following the flock.
The Chinese name for this species is Soft Green Lace-eye.
Barrow's Goldeneye x Common Goldeneye Hybrid with Common Goldeneye
Merrimack River, Lowell, Massachusetts
