Unidentified Duck
 

Hey guys, we saw this bird on the water yesterday, and can't figure out what it is. The picture is alittle grainy because all I had was a point and shoot (wish I would have had my DSLR :cry:). Hoping someone can tell me what this thing is. It was diving alot, and the only thing that seems to match the scrip is either a horned or eared grebe.

Looks like one of Ws loons cousin from joes....lol..

it is called a ruddy duck

Ruddy duck off googlehttp://sdakotabirds.com/species/photos/ruddy_duck.jpg

that him?

Looks like a loon to me.

Looks like a tree duck

This is a common loon

Your 1st pic is 100% ruddy duck in its winter plumage

Ruddy duck it's full of them in the big burns this time of year

Ruddy duck

Cool, yep now that I look at it, it does look like a ruddy duck. Had alot of trouble with this guy, cause I've never seen a ruddy before, but it makes sense. There was about 8 or 10 in the area at the time, and at first look we thought they were just pied-bill grebes, so the size matches.

I stand corrected, looks like it would taste like a scaup.

I know one thing there's 2 ducks that can come into my decoys and won't get a gun pointed at them a hooded merganser and a ruddy duck. A ruddy duck talk about hard to pluck!

could be a hell diver?

No it could not because its a ruddy duck!

ruddy duck hen,one nasty eatin bird!!