Mergansers and more: a trip with my bird club

On Feb. 6, I went on another trip with my bird club. This was a waterfowl survey, and we saw a lot of cool ducks. We birded at ponds around the Oakton area of Virginia, and here is what we saw:

Blurry Common Merganser picture. They were too far away to take good pictures.

Then we saw a Bald Eagle fly over! We also saw his nest.

Bufflehead

The next thing we saw was a Mute Swan. He came two feet away from us!

Then we saw some male Hooded Mergansers.

Hooded Merganser Males Displaying - this was so cool! They jerked their heads back and lept up!

Female Hooded Merganser Calling

Ring-necked Duck

Northern Cardinal

Red-shouldered Hawk

Turkey tail Mushroom - I spotted this, it's very pretty!