goosander

I never could get a good picture of this bird, because the eyes are so difficult to capture when there's not enough light. Today I was extremely lucky: they came so close and the sun was shining!

A big shoal of Roach brought these Goosanders and Cormorant in to feed under the boat jetty on the loch

A walk along the river the other week... couldn't find my usual Dippers but this Goosander was sitting on a rock. Although it was quite sunny, he was under overhanging branches so it was pretty dark. Strangely he was initially facing the other way, and those pictures were pretty awful, this was...

This girl was looking stunning in the evening light I just had to get some frames.

a slightly better image of the busy female Goosander and her 9 chicks

What an adorable scene, and my first ever encounter of a Goosander with young. I think 3 or 4 managed to get a lift before she took refuge in the shade of the overhanging willows

A female goosander in Skipton Woods, North Yorkshire.

A much better picture of an earlier Goosander upload from the river. This one was much closer to my bank and I managed to catch it as it came into a clearing between the trees. Confusingly, for those on the other side of the pond Goosander is your Common Merganser, we both have Red-breasted...

Common Merganser also known as Goosander (Mergus merganser americanus) Three subspecies are recognized with only subspecies americanus mapped for Alaska. Female and juvenile, species sexually dimorphic. Roadside pond adjacent to Kenai River near the confluence with the Russian River near...

Walk along the river today searching for that kingfisher, never got a sight off it, but a few other birds about.

The wintering female. Got to hand feed it!

About 6 males and a female on one of the smaller lakes on the reserve. A first for me but must return and hope for some closer views and some kinder light or better technique to cope with too much contrast and burned out whites. Lucky to catch one 'catching one'.

Goosanders at Hayle, Cornwall, UK

Very distant, but it's another species of bird that I hadn't seen before this morning. And no, I didn't find the Water Rail, just these and the Bittern|=)| I'll explain more about the Bittern next time I upload a pic. But I will say that it was good that, for once, what was reported at the...

Another from the Goosander flyby