Also titled: 2 for Garth, 2 for Margot and 1 for John!
Garth: I need your help to identify this bird. It was the only one of this type that I found. It definitely looked like a baby to me—very fuzzy head. I was shooting into the light, so not the best pix for identification.
Margot: The bees were a buzzin’! The honey bee was so covered with pollen that I barely recognized it.
John: I’m watching you!
You didn’t think I heard you call me an old buzzard, did you? AL, be quiet!!!
Wow, you make it hard! Immature, body shaded, eye in shadow. But, I’m leaning towards it being a immature female hooded merganser. I have a couple issues with that, being how high it is floating in the water, mergansers are diving ducks and normally float deeper. The body shape doesn’t quite look right.
It being immature might change this. The yellow beak and brown eye (maybe??) would make it a female, not a male. It looks quite young. I had a couple other ideas, but they don’t seem to quite fit.
How about I identify the bottom picture??
Carole, how was that you pronounced our email?
Al