You can make out four wood ducks in this view. There were at least six floating around on this side of the middle bog.

Our favorite subject of this week is the wood ducks in the nearby bogs. Here is a male wood duck on the far side of the middle bog. This bog is relatively new since beavers dammed the nearby stream a year or so ago.

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.