So I was eating lunch at Stewart Park in the beautiful weather, casually watching lesser scaups and redheads loafing about as close to shore as I've ever seen, and a muskrat swimming past even closer. I picked up my binoculars to get a closer look at the muskrat, and instead saw a duck! crouched low to the water as if in stealth mode. Every now and then it would dive slowly like a muskrat. It did this very close to shore, moving along until it reached the dock, went under the footbridge to the dock, then moved back east possibly in response to my stalking :-).
I snatched a few photos of this strange behavior, plus a few more from the few times it "stood up proper". The ID of this duck stumped me for a bit but I think I figured it out. Can you ID this bird? (Answer below): http://www.flickr.com/photos/50094151@N03/sets/72157643864216253 Scroll down for answer. Female redhead. At least that's what I think it is. Suan _____________________ http://suan-yong.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
