Female Lesser Scaup diving for food under Lily pads

I was happy to find this new migrant at Beaver Lake :) It was the first scaup of the season and it just popped out from under the water to my delight! Trying to differentiate the Greater and Lesser Scaup is not easy, but I'm pretty sure this is a Lesser Scaup based on the little black "nail" on the tip of its bill.

This video captures the scaup diving into the Beaver Lake water and foraging under the Lily pads for something to eat :) The water is not very deep, so you can see the water displacement kicked up from the scaup's webbed feet. This allows me to track it and hopefully capture it coming out of the water :) I wish I could capture it underwater!

This video was captured on November 25th 2017 at Beaver Lake, in Vancouver's Stanley Park located in British Columbia, Canada.

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