[Tweeters] Redhead at Cedar River Delta

[Odette James via Tweeters]

This afternoon a male Redhead, with an actual red head (yellow eye and bluish bill with black tip) diving with coots and Mallards right off the end of the airport runway.  The coots seemed to be looking for bits of vegetation stirred up by the Redhead's bubbling dives.  This is not the same Redhead that was here several days ago - that one was probably a juvenile and this is an adult.
The lake level continues to drop, and more and more of the sand and gravel of the delta is being exposed.  Shorebirds are mostly a few peep and quite a few Killdeer.  The Pectorals (at one point there were 2) were here for 4-5 days but finally seem to have gone.  There was a Greater Yellowlegs for a time yesterday and a Semipalmated Plover a few days ago for only a day, Spotted Sandpipers occasionally drop by on the logs, and a pipit dropped in for a few seconds this afternoon.  There is also a Double-crested Cormorant (a few appeared on August 23 but don't seem to have stuck around).  And some Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Wigeons and Green-winged Teal in addition to the usual Mallards and Gadwalls and Pied-billed Grebes and Canada Geese.  And still one lone Caspian Tern (not the same one that was here a few days ago).  Quite a few swallows feeding over the delta, but none very close to me - looked mostly like Barn.  Unfortunately I missed the Sabine's Gulls - they don't seem to be here today.
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