I don’t normally take pictures of ducks as most tend to be quite skittish and I don’t have the patience to do the work required to get close. Yesterday however, this male Common Merganser swam right by where I was sitting on the shore of a pond. He looked pretty darned cool so I of course had to take a few pics of him.
![A male Common Merganser duck on a pond in Colorado. (© Tony’s Takes)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CVTQ7KPICw0/Wpvrc9LuUeI/AAAAAAAAj44/7q5zIpu0BVcEaEnuDMCdbErT9pKjVt_QgCJoC/s710/2018-03-03%2B07-19-51%2B-%2B0072.jpg)