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Great photos, Hooded Mergansers are very characterful birds!

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Thank you Juliet!

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Gorgeous ducks❤️😍👍

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Thank you Sharon!

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I loved this. My favourites were the female mergansers posing with the fish. They look like coiffured pocket-sized cormorants.

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Thank you Jeffrey

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Love the ICE picks. (haha)

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lol, thank you Jacqueline

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Great photos of the Hooded Mergansers Karen and nice to see so many. I always like to see your photos of ice as well. That photo of the ice that looks like selenite is amazing.

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Thank you Neil

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Love the merganser antics and your captions are great!

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Thank you Rosalie

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Variety with a capital V! The many poses of the mergansers and their acrobatics, and the ice sculpture! Just astounding in their multi-faceted beauty!

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Thank you Lauren

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Sweet! 🦆🧊🦆🧊❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you Michael

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Thanks for sharing the beauty and for seeing nature with so much wonder and joy.

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Thank you Dawn

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Thanks, Karen, for sharing your joy and inspiring ours.

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Thank you Gary

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Oh man those ice photos are sooooo pretty. I can’t pick one! The ponytail merganser lolol

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Thank you Kara

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Let's hear it for girl ducks that can fish with the best of them! 🤗 For some reason today's ice pics took me back to my childhood discovery of iced over puddles. The kneeling to take a closer look and discover what was going on down there. As always, thank you Karen!

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Thank you Sandy. I love that childhood memory!

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Wow, nothing like ducks and ice to “strengthen our capacity for joy”! The mergansers are wonderful, the ice is lovely - and that final glowing one, wow!

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Thank you Sydney

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