Common Mergansers, far out on the frozen lake

Common Mergansers in back line of ducks
BD: pair of HOMEs in front

Possible Lesser Black-backed Gull (L) and Ring-billed Gull (R), out on frozen Lake Overholser

Ring-billed Gulls and a duck?

Ring-billed Gulls and two dark Lesser Black-backed Gulls, all tucked in, on frozen Lake Overholser
BD: would call gull behind L LBBG a HERG; other larger-than-RBGUs also present, could be HERG, THGU or CAGU; lack of white subscapular crescent suggests CAGU

Male and female Hooded Mergansers

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Scaup, Mallard and Ring-billed Gull
BD: re LESC: slight corner on back of head, straight back of neck, relatively thin, straight bill

Female Hooded Merganser and Lesser Scaup
BD: On L (foreground), young male LESC molting into adult plumage, which occurs mid-winter

Ring-billed Gull (first winter?), female Hooded Merganser, and Lesser Scaup

Ring-billed Gull and Lesser Scaup

Double-crested Cormorant

Male Hooded Merganser

Song Sparrow, on E side of Lake Overholser, S of boat ramp and ranger station

Song Sparrow

Male Hooded Mergansers and Common Goldeneyes

Lone Pied-billed Grebe, in its own little opening in the ice on the W side of Lake Overholser

Probable Herring Gull, from W side of Lake Overholser
BD: Blackish primaries and tail don't show any of the lighter edge markings that wound indicate Iceland/Thayer's Gull; light panel on inner primaries is typical of HERG

Possible Iceland Gull

Possible Iceland Gull

Possible Iceland Gull

Possible Iceland Gull

One of several Savannah Sparrows working along the road on the W side of Lake Overholser.

Savannah Sparrow, among fallen branches along the W side of Lake Overholser

Ruddy Ducks, off the bridge on the N side of Lake Overholser (a Belted Kingfisher flew out from under the bridge where we'd stopped to take photos)

American Coots, with the Ruddy Ducks on the N side of Lake Overholser

Ruddy Duck

The only American White Pelicans we saw.

Bonaparte's Gull, N side of Lake Overholser

One of two large groups of Northern Shovelers circling on the N side of Lake Overholser

Northern Pintail