Howdy,



I finally got around to going through my photos from Sunday at Eastwood
Park's Hydrobowl and remembered photographing a duck that was hanging fairly
closely by two Mallards, but was definitely not a Mallard, or at least not
one I'm accustomed to seeing.  The screaming orange legs were what caught my
eye from a distance and once it came in a lot closer, I was able to get
several photographs of it.  I'm in the process of going through the complete
set to see if there are any better than what I posted to my photobucket
album "unknown," but for now, the link has 5 photographs:



http://s272.beta.photobucket.com/user/kon16ov/library/North%20American%20Bir
ds/unknown



(let me know if you can't connect to the photo gallery - photobucket seems
to be getting frisky with its layout.)



An overall description - the bill looks mallardish, the head seems
mallardish but more of a reddish-green and full down the neck with no ring.
The eyes and eye-rings seem black.  The overall feather coloration is light
- mostly white and beige - with a dark rump and white tail.   Again, the
most striking thing and what grabbed my attention - the orange legs.and not
a little orange, either.



At any rate, after consulting Uncle Sibley, AllAboutBirds, my Stokes guide
and iBird, I felt it time to turn it over to y'all while thinking, "why do I
seem to find the weird ones," OR "why can't I identify the oddly colored
normal?"  Either, way, I humbly ask for some assistance, here.



Thanks,



Phil Ware

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