While the red-breasted mergansers were busy feeding on fish exposed by the reduced water lever in the Meadow Grounds Lake, they were a...

Ring-necked ducks taking flight With the arrival of May the spring waterfowl migration is winding down in my area.  It all began back...

Mixed flock of red-breasted mergansers and horned grebes As longtime followers of Country Captures well know photographing the spring...

After an unusually cold and wet spring, summer arrived on the tail of a series of vicious storms that downed trees and knocked out power acr...

A Great Blue Heron allowed me to approach while it watched intently under the stump.  I was hoping for a great catch shot but whatever it wa...

Mid May and the Red-breasted Mergansers are still here!  The mergansers arrived shortly after ice-out.  By early April I could expect to see...

Female Red-breasted Mergansers Flushing Red-breasted Mergansers are large diving ducks that winter along the Atlantic and Gulf coast passin...

I began my day by arriving at the wetlands, walking in and setting up the hide under cover of darkness.  Across the marsh I could hear the c...

Among to many ways to enjoy the outdoors one of my favorites is by boat.  Over the years I have owned boats ranging from a little 12 foot jo...

I first noticed these Red-breasted Merganser hens flying towards me apparently intending to land near the boat. With a bass tournament under...

The Red-breasted Mergansers are common visitors during the spring migration but oddly enough in the past I have encountered only hens on ou...

As any regular visitor to Country Captures knows, I have been having a great time this spring photo-hunting waterfowl. I have become particu...