Some Closeups of Unwin Ave. Bridge Birds: Late December 2022

With all of the ice in the bay near the Unwin Ave. bridge, many waterfowl species are crowed together in a small amount of open water and allow very close approach.

Here are some of them:

Hooded Merganser (male)
Bufflehead (male)
Greater Scaup
Greater Black-backed Gull
Trumpeters Swans
Mallards
Trumpeter Swan
Hooded Mergansers
Common Goldeneye
American Coot
hybrid “bib” duck
Greater Scaup (female)
American Coot
Trumpeter Swan
Greater Scaup
Hooded Merganser (male)
Trumpeter Swan
Greater Scaup
Greater Scaup (male)
Long-tailed Duck (female)
Greater Scaup (male)
Trumpeter Swans
American Coot
Mallard (male) and Coot
Hooded Merganser (female)
Greater Scaup (male)
Hooded Merganser (female)
Common Goldeneye (male)
Greater Scaup (male)
Hooded Merganser (male)
American Coot
Bufflehead (female) and Mallards
Common Goldeneye (male)
Herring Gull (juvenile)
American Coot
Hooded Mergansers (female)

NATURE POETRY

And now the feathery snowflakes slowly fly
In many a mazy circle round and round.   – Charles Turner Dazey (1855–1938)

Miles Hearn

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