Sunny Ducks I

Sometimes in bird photography there’s sunshine. Even in Erie, Pennsylvania in winter. These lovely shots off South Pier last week, on a painfully cold day.

Probably Lesser Scaup, male
Common Goldeneye (m)

So nice to pick up the head iridescence on these male Goldeneyes!

Male Common Goldeneye II
Common Goldeneye (female – brown head)
Scaup II
Canada Geese
Common Goldeneye & Scaup in float ice
Red-breasted Merganser (f)
Scaup III
Female Common Goldeneye flying away
Two Goldeneyes (center, right) & female Scaup (left)
Lots of ducks!
Male (foreground) & female (background) Common Goldeneye
Scaup IV

With the windchill, probably below 0 deg F (-18 deg C). So cold, even human footprints were frozen!

Frozen footprints on South Pier
More female Common Goldeneye
Scaup V
More male Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser (f) in float ice
Lots and lots of ducks!
Scaup VI

Coming soon, more sunny ducks, and a word about Scaup ID!