Need help with bird ID.

Hi Bob,I think we meet at Mike's(OBS) the day you had the custom gunnel decoy bags...but anyway ...I think it's a young King Eider...the second bird looks part Pintail
 
Hi Bob,I think we meet at Mike's(OBS) the day you had the custom gunnel decoy bags...but anyway ...I think it's a young King Eider...the second bird looks part Pintail
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yup that was meeeeeeeeeeee...the more I look the more I think you guys are right
 
Although I havn't been on the bay for over 30 years,I grew up on the bay and for the first 15 years of my working career, I was a clamdigger on the great south bay. We worked all year, Patchogue/ Blue Point, was home. In the dead of winter we saw all kinds of birds that shouldn't be there. One winter day we were working down near Bellport bay over on the south side where the inlet cut through. This funny little bird came swimming right up to our boat, it was so tame, my buddy said "it must be someones pet". My buddy was a third or fourth generation Baymen, whose ancesters were market gunners, and he didnt know what it was. That night we looked it up and found out it was a Dovkie. Almost looked and swam like a penguin. Never know what those winter storms push south! Rich
 
either a juvie hen squaw or an oddie, even for the island-harlie hen!
The white eye ring is a stumper-maybe a young spectacled hen?-Bill process is certainly not a king eider. what color were the feet?
 
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either a juvie hen squaw or an oddie, even for the island-harlie hen!
The white eye ring is a stumper-maybe a young spectacled hen?-Bill process is certainly not a king eider. what color were the feet?
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feet were dirty gold George.
 
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