As you might recall from my previous post, I pass a cute little pond every morning on my way to work. Yesterday morning I about caused an accident as I spotted something way cool in the pond and swirved off the road to get out my camera (just so happens I had it with me).

Turns out, camped in the pond were several hooded mergansers. They are not all that common, but not all that rare…I personally hadn’t seen one before though. Unfortunately, there is no good place to park and no way to get closer to the pond from the road AND it was morning rush hour. So my photos turned out crappy, I blame the cars whizzing by, not having a cool camera like a Nikon D50 (hint hint Mom ), and my own photographic skills. The first round of pics were so disappointing that I prepared again this morning for drive-by birding in hopes of getting a better picture. No such luck. The pictures below were the best I could do for being across a road.

These first three pictures are of the male…looks like he has one awesome mohawk.

The female has a brown head and also appears to be sporting the mohawk thing here…

Male and female chilin’ together…

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