While waiting near the stream for a lucky arrival of the local pair of the wood ducks, I caught movement in the brush on my left. Not only were they already nearby, they seemed unconcerned or oblivious of my presence.

As we waited along the far bog, a northern flicker stopped by about thirty feet up.

We caught this pair of mergansers paddling around the pond edge again this week.

This is another view of the wood ducks from the far bog taken last week. I wanted to give viewers a look at the pair as they cruised around their apparent boggy home. We have seen them several times over the last few weeks. We believe this is a different pair then the birds we have seen nearer our house (see yesterday’s post).