Snapped these pics of mergansers (and a couple mallards too) behind the house today

[tk2kewl]

[longship]

1. Happy to R&K a happy thread. ;) nt

[tk2kewl]

4. thanks

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. me too! Love animal and happy threads

[Robb]

2. Nice!

Not to try to tell you your business, but I think yer dinghy is sinkin'.

[tk2kewl]

3. not mine...

[Auntie Bush]

5. How lucky you are...Hooded Mergansers pair and a Green winged Teal drake.

Wish I could observe them in my back yard. I've only had Mallards and Canada geese.
A Mallard had 13 babies and I got to watch them learn new skills and grow up and a couple die. Then one day they swam down the stream and never returned.

[tk2kewl]

8. Green winged Teal drake...

i thought it was one of the female mergansers (color blind). cool.

[Auntie Bush]

13. There are a pair of teals...much shorter in length than Mergansers.

[DakotaLady]

6. Always enjoy ...

... when DU's share photos with us. Thank you ...

Was a 'birder' for years.

Yesterday I watched here on DU for many minutes a live video cam of a hummingbird thinking about leaving the nest.

It helps me to not think about the many awful/sad things going on.

[tk2kewl]

9. I hear you DakotaLady...

I was glad to see them and happy to share. I didn't work today so I got the opportunity to see them and it brightened my day too.

[Auntie Bush]

14. Did you watch the Decorah Eaglets grow up on live TV last year.

They don't know yet if we'll see them this year. They're building a new nest and don't know which one they will use this year...no camera on the new nest so we're all hoping they will use the old nest one more time...got fingers crossed...should know in a couple weeks when the mom lays her eggs. Check it out on Facebook.

I watched the Humming bird video too.

[lillypaddle]

7. Damn

That's some nifty backyard ya got! Great pics!

[tk2kewl]

11. wasn't so nifty a couple of month ago...

but things are looking up for us. Unfortunately though, quite a few houses in the hood are still uninhabited and some are uninhabitable.

[lillypaddle]

21. So sorry to hear that

but I'm glad, at least, things are looking up. Hang in there.

[tk2kewl]

23. thanks

i hate to complain... you are right i have a great back yard... especially in the summer when it extends to the bay and ocean

but during Sandy the water was over the tops of the fences in the pics... about 9 feet above mean high tide... pics are close to low tide

bring on the good weather

[IDemo]

10. You live in a watercolor?

Nice!

[tk2kewl]

16. and i actually got a chance to enjoy it for a change

it was a good day

[lotsofsnowplease]

12. Quack

[sakabatou]

15. Very nice

Just a lil advice: if you do want to take a picture of a bird flying off, try a higher shutter speed. The only down-side is you need more light.

[tk2kewl]

17. thanks

camera was on full auto and that's what i got... My wife is the photog in the family

[sakabatou]

18. I took a class in it

Learned how to take good pics. I need to get a new, digital camera, since my old one took only film.

[ErikJ]

20. Hummingbird perched outside my window today

to get out of the downpour. I have a clothesline under my back patio roof and I look out and there he was perched on it. Preening his feathers and sharrpening his long skinny beak on the clothesline. Very cute. He looked like he was in a trance part of the time, maybe trying to get his bearings as he moved his head from side to side.

[cali]

22. I like duckies!

Have ever since reading (or rather having it read to me) Make Way for Ducklings.

Thanks for posting.