Left to right is a common goldeneye, common merganser, and a male
and female hooded merganser. Since I've started learning about all
the interesting species of waterfowl on the Skokie Lagoons I've
started thinking about the Lagoons as sort of a backyard zoo,
because it's only a ten minute bike ride from my house, and after
school today I decided to bike to the canoe launch on Tower Road to
see if I could get a shot of one of the interesting looking duck-variants.
This is probably the most fortunate nature shot I've ever been
able to get because I was specifically looking for a merganser
and I spotted these birds the moment I entered the bike trail
and I got a photo of them all in the same frame. This was shot
through a small wooded area between the path and the water,
and of course as I tried to get closer moments later they all
flew away. I was still able to get a few individual shots of the
hooded merganser, which is a beautiful bird.
Glencoe
Taken in February 2012
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