Yesterday Was a Ducky Sort of Day!

It was a great day for pictures! Alas, the River is opening up and the birds are dispersing to their nesting areas. In the meantime, I had fun!

Here are a pair of Common Goldeneye

A Canada Goose making a big splash on arrival

Two male Greater Scaup

A Pair of Bufflehead

A Male Common Goldeneye

A male Hooded Merganser

Tundra Swans

The Tundra Swans are a lot bigger than the Canada Goose!

A pair of Mallards

Canada Goose Mating ritual

Three Canada Geese fighting for the right to mate

What's New at the Pond?

The Northern Shovellers are back and paired up.

 The Buffleheads have arrived and are strutting around the pond

 This one here seems to have found a mate already!

 They are a very pretty duck with the high contrast black and white crowned by iridescence on the head. It's very hard to capture the colours! 

 Then there were the Muskrats swimming around and doing?

 I can see where the "Rat" part of there name comes from.

 They are very, very agile in the water, and fun to watch.

Every day seems to bring new surprises to my birding, animal areas. Now that we have had our last snow, I hope, I can get out more often! We are forecasting temps in the double digits starting Wednesday. That is around 70C for all you unilingual folks.

Have a great day!