April 2014 Spring Birds, Ducks, and a goodby to the snow and ice.

After a long winter a good brisk bath is just what our State Bird needs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ice floating in the channel

 

 

 

 

 

Ducks, all kinds of them,

 

 

 

Red-breasted Merganser courting his lady

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Mergansers

 

 

 

Horned Grebe

 

Male Bufflehead Ducks

 

 

Male Mallard 

 

 

Seagull harassing the ducks

 

 

 

 

Blue Billed Ducks 

 

White-winged Scoter and Red headed ducks             

 

 

 

Canadian Goose 

 

Merganser Female 

 

 

White-winged Scoter 

 

Goldeneye Duck 

 

Blue-Billed Duck 

 

Ring-necked Duck             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Egret

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This time he catches more then he can swallow,

he tries but no luck. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He finally drops the sunfish. 

 

Eastern Blue bird

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Bob & Cindy Brady for letting me camp out on their dock with my camera waiting for their annual visit by the loons. 

 

 

 

 

Great Blue Heron