Birds and gators

From yesterday and today out at my local state park.

What I think is a downy woodpecker. I was looking right at the sun, very hard to get a look at him. He did have the tiny red spot on the top of the back of his head, but i got no pictures showing it.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...0/DSC_0377.jpg

A small-ish gator watching from the edge of the lake, through a polarizer so I can see into the water.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-r...0/DSC_0385.jpg

A much larger one coming in from out in the lake.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-E...0/DSC_0395.jpg

A pair of moorhens, a new sight for me at the park.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...0/DSC_0401.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...0/DSC_0411.jpg

One day several weeks ago I got to speak with one of the rangers, and he described a gator they call "Gimpy," missing his right front foot. Well, I got to meet Gimpy yesterday.
We, um..... didn't shake.... :)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...0/DSC_0432.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...0/DSC_0433.jpg

Met a different alligator today:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...0/DSC_0679.jpg

They can be sneaky little guys....
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9...0/DSC_0681.jpg

The moorhens were still around. At least one of them, anyway....
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y...0/DSC_0684.jpg

And an Eastern Towhee foraging on the ground. He was back in the shade, couldn't tell what he was, and my snapshot was about 3 stops underexposed. Photoshop to the rescue!
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G...0/DSC_0687.jpg