Redhead pair - 09 (soty16)
(Althea americana) Predator Ridge, a small lake we love to visit before their gold season opens....
I don't know what the white speckling on her head signifies; I can't find anything about it online. Perhaps she's partially leucistic, but I don't think so.... At least two females displayed this; perhaps its something they pick up while diving, but it that were so, why wouldn't the males be speckled, too?
Thanks to Nigel Dawson for his contribution (on photo 06) which spurred me on to further research and led to this account, which fails to solve the problem, but discusses it at some length.
www.chron.com/sports/outdoors/article/Tompkins-White-on-r...
Redhead pair - 09 (soty16)
(Althea americana) Predator Ridge, a small lake we love to visit before their gold season opens....
I don't know what the white speckling on her head signifies; I can't find anything about it online. Perhaps she's partially leucistic, but I don't think so.... At least two females displayed this; perhaps its something they pick up while diving, but it that were so, why wouldn't the males be speckled, too?
Thanks to Nigel Dawson for his contribution (on photo 06) which spurred me on to further research and led to this account, which fails to solve the problem, but discusses it at some length.
www.chron.com/sports/outdoors/article/Tompkins-White-on-r...