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.

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).

The female wood duck that I have encountered several times on the stream near our house preened herself on this bridge railing.

Not sure who this guy is. Early springtime in the woods of Maine.