[EBB Sightings] Coot Chicks (Cootlings?)

I had always thought coots were winter birds around here. All the coots 
at Berkeley's Aquatic Park leave for the summer (except for an 
occasional straggler).

And I know this isn't an east bay sighting. But it's too good to not 
share. There is a pair of american coots with tiny (chicks?) 
(cootlings?) on the small pond that's a short way down the trail to 
Abbot's lagoon in Point Reyes.

I never though coots were cute. But these babies are! They have red 
heads, something else I didn't know.

I suppose these coots migrated here from somewhere while our winter 
coots migrated somewhere else?

John Henry, the (steeldrv)
steeldrv at well.com
John H. Maurer