Wood duck performs a picture-perfect flyby
Well, I sure am not complaining about this capture! Ducks are certainly not a top subject of mine but every now and then I will take some snaps of them.…
LBB roundup: Goldeneye to yellowlegs
As I have said many times, I don’t normally take pictures of “little birds,” what I call almost any non-raptor bird. However, when the opportunity presents itself, I will snap…
Hooded merganser catches, flips, eats a crawdad
This is a fun little sequence, be sure to scroll through to see the series of images. At a local pond this past Sunday, there were about a dozen juvenile…
Bride of Frankenstein ducks take to the water
I dunno, there is something about female hooded mergansers that just really reminds me of the title character in that 1935 horror flick. That crest on the top of the…
Male hooded mergansers strutting around the pond
Now these are some pretty good looking #ducks. I had heard a bunch of them were hanging out at a suburban pond, catching crawdads off the bottom. While I was…
Hooded merganser out for a swim
Check out this handsome fellow. I don’t usually have the patience to photograph ducks as they are just too skittish and I am not one to sit and wait for…