Wood Duck Beauty

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

Design by Nature

Hooded Merganzer

The Hood comes in many ‘styles’

air-blown

relaxed

formal

flowing

Duck Diversity, Detroit River

Bufflehead pair

Red Head Duck pair

Common Golden Eye

Ring-necked Duck

My ‘Baker’s Dozen’ of 2021 Photos

Some with Phone camera, some with Canon 7D MarkII.

Snowy Owl’s muff

Eagle Eyes

_{Robin in Winterberry}

_Meditation

Nov. Crescent Moon

Sinking Sun, Detroit River

September Moon

Dirty Air = Red Sun

_{Golden Hour,
Lodge at Summer Lake, OR}

American Avocet

_{Flycatcher & Caterpillar}

_{Wood Duck Drake}

Pie Leather

Bufflehead Iridescence: elusive shades of green and purple