Larry,

It is quite tame, but I don't see in our bird the internal rufous markings
on darker scapular feathers that Eaton's [Sourhern] Pintail seems to show
in photos I've looked at (small sample). I believe the speculum differs as
well.

Carl Haynie
Sammamish

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 11:08 PM Larry Schwitters <leschwitters at me.com>
wrote:


> There's a very tame dabbling duck at the main beach of Lake Sammamish

> State Park that has the plumage of a female Northern Pintail but is

> significantly smaller than the Mallards it's hanging with. Small enough to

> make it not a Northern Pintail. There's a Southern Pintail that's the right

> size?

>

> Couldn't be. Could it?

>

> Larry Schwitters

> Issaquah

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