Male Hooded Merganser

In my inaugural post I posted a photo of a female Hooded Merganser. This is the male. Not a great shot but it's not a bad one of these elusive ducks. As stealthy as I tried to be (I didn't use a blind, which would no doubt have been handy), these wary birds will sense you then see you. This guy didn't get too spooked, he just changed direction and quickly went about putting as much distance between himself and me as he could. Fortunately I was able to squeeze off a few frames before he got too out of range. As I said, not great but I do like the head turn I got and the water colours.