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Banded Golden-Eye and Old Squaw Mounts finally!!!!

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#1 ·
Got these two awesome birds in two consecutive days! The picture of te group of birds are all old squaw hens except for the female Golden-Eye. Never got a picture of the Drake Old Squaw becasue as soon as I shot it I put it in a stockingto keep the feathers ok for the taxidermist
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#4 ·
Nice mounts. A banda Goldeneye is quite rare. From the DU magazine March/April 2008 issue they had a section on banded birds and from 1914 to 2004 there were 18,907 banded Common goldeneyes with 2,398 bands reported. I cut this piece out and kept it with a goldeneye that I shot in 2004 that was also banded in 2002.