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 ------------------------ [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]