Betty Moore Photography

Some people confuse male common mergansers for loons. The shape of their heads are similar, but as you can see they look quite different. The male merganser is on the left, and the loon on the right. The female common merganser looks different than the male. As you can see below, the male and female […]

I look forward to seeing these small ducks during migration season. We see them in the spring and then later in the fall. They are very skittish and it’s difficult getting any photos of them. These were taken with a 600 mm lens, and then cropped. The male’s head is a glossy green and purple. […]

I like this time of year because we end up seeing birds we don’t always see during the rest of the year. These are hooded mergansers. This is a male merganser. The white on the head can be expanded into a “hood”. Hooded mergansers are the smallest of the mergansers. The female is not as […]

We don’t see wood ducks on our lake very often. These two have been staying for a few days, so I was pleased to get a few pictures this morning. Wood Ducks do not nest on the ground as many other ducks do. They nest in cavities in trees and are comfortable flying through woods.  […]