PAINTED TURTLE SUNNING
SMILING SLIDER
SWAMP RABBIT
OCHRE STARFISH
THE AMERICAN DIPPER, delicate in appearance but a strong underwater swimmer when foraging in a rushing, tumbling stream
SURPRISED TO SEE THIS NORTHWESTERN CROW FORAGE IN A MARSH AND COME UP WITH - A FROG!
RIVER OTTER WITH ATTITUDE
THE VERY IMPRESSIVE SHOVELER DUCK
TRICOLORED HERON WITH A MULLET LUNCHEON
A RATHER REGAL PERCHED YELLOW-CROWNED HERON
CORAL WATERLILIES
ELUSIVE BLACK SCOTER
FEATHER DISPLAY - A PAIR OF NEOTROPIC CORMORANTS
HORNED GREBE IN WINTER PLUMAGE
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (female) WITH A CRAB
LONG-TAILED DRAKE IN WINTER COLOR
THE ELEGANT COMMON GOLDENEYE DRAKE
SURF SCOTERS WATCHING THE GIRLS GO BY . . .
BRANDT'S CORMORANT - LIVING ON THE EDGE
PELAGIC CORMORANT IN FLIGHT
OOPS! WHERE DID SHE COME FROM?!!
SURF SCOTER - ME? WHY, I'M JUST SWIMMING . . .
BLACK GUILLEMOTS SPARRING IN SURF
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (male)
HE SAID . . .
SHE SAID . . .
YELLOWLEGS (What else?!)
COMMON GOLDENEYE (female)
BATHING BEAUTY MALLARD DUCK
CINNAMON TEALS - misty morning on a marsh
LITTLE BLUE HERON ON A BAD HAIR DAY
HARLEQUIN DUCKLINGS RESTING AT STREAMSIDE
ROSEATE SPOONBILL WING STRETCH
A GULL WITH AN OCHRE STARFISH - MAYBE IT'S AN ACQUIRED TASTE???
IT APPEARS THIS MAY BE A HYBRID OF THE AMERICAN WIGEON AND A GADWALL . . . ANY THOUGHTS?
MANY PINTAILS AND A FEW MALLARDS DECORATE THE SHORELINE
THE IRIDESCENT HELMET DISTINGUISHES THE MALE AMERICAN WIGEON BUT BOTH SHARE THE ORNATE BODY FEATHER PATTERNS
PATTERN OF REEDS ALONG A LAKESHORE
MALLARD DRAKE AND DUCK IN SYNCHRONIZED FLIGHT
MALLARD PAIR IN SYNCHRONIZED FLIGHT
SYNCHRONIZED LANDING BY A MALLARD PAIR
TRUMPETER SWAN JUVENILE PREENING
GREAT EGRET IN BREEDING COLOR AND PLUMAGE
GREAT EGRET PREENING
MUTE SWAN IN MISTY MORNING LIGHT
BALD EAGLE WITH COHO SALMON CATCH
BALD EAGLE WITH COHO SALMON
BALD EAGLE FLUFFING AFTER A CATCH OF SALMON
