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.