Floaters

Sharing some nice shots of Pied-billed Grebe off South Pier, + other floating waterfowl:

Pied-billed Grebe, adult non-breeding plumage
American Coot
Lesser Scaup (f)
Red-breasted Merganser (f)
Red-breasted Merganser (m)
Scaups (f – foreground, m – background)
Female Scaup II
Grebe II
Merganser III
Merganser IV
Male Scaup
Merganser V
Grebe III
F (left) & male Scaups
American Coot II

Finally for today, a nice sequence of Pied-billed Grebe exhibiting ‘escape by diving’ (i.e., flight) behavior: