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Northern (Flicker) Light

The Steps of Common Goldeneye Courtship Display, aka “Want to Dance?”

Starting position

Step 1, pretend to be a masthead

Get your head to touch your back

Get your feet up behind you

Contract your body, kick out and splash!

Begin again

Spotlight on the Pied Grebe

Hooded Merganzer: hard to catch in flight

Fish Hockey, Tag, or Keep-Away?

Redhead ducks, Ecorse, MI

Riding the river waves

Her turn

His turn

She got it!

His again

Eagles at Mud Island, Ecorse, MI

Design by Nature

Hooded Merganzer

The Hood comes in many ‘styles’

air-blown

relaxed

formal

flowing

Cinnamon ‘wash’ on the Immature Northern Harrier

seen on Belle Isle, Detroit, MI