Counting PWDs ie Plumed Whistling-Ducks or PLWHDU or PWDU

["David McDonald (personal)" <>]

I counted 91 there on Tuesday 3 Feb, and submitted that obs to Eremaea eBird - David
PS I am not aware of any generally-accepted three letter bird name code system. Better to stick with the standard six letter codes - the four letter codes don't work well in our area, too many clashes.

On 7/02/2015 12:41 PM, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

Getting a little ahead of the week’s story here but coming back yesterday, unaware of recent messages about PWD counts,  I paused at the Trucking Lane farmdam and snapped the flock in sections with a 300mm lens. Later I made non-overlapping sections and marked in red all the ducks that were NOT PWDs, the PWDs being  each given a white dot.  My count is 89.  Of course there might be more or less at any given time.  Before I snapped them I had flushed a small group from the road side which joined the flock on the far side.