A group of mallards are seen resting along the Connecticut shore earlier this year.
Connecticut
Merganser at dusk
Lunch time on a winter day
A red-bellied woodpecker searches for a meal on a crisp winter noontime
Horned grebe cruising the bay
Just ducky
Egret by the marsh
Heron on the marsh
Osprey overhead
The young heron

I have re-worked an earlier image of a juvenile heron by carefully deleting the background. It is sort of like painting.
Sunset at the little beach