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| Last week I saw this pair of American wigeon ducks in the cold and partially frozen East River. The male is on the left. Click to enlarge. |
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| I spent the intervening time indoors nursing a cold and looking through old photos, and I found this shot of a pair in breeding plumage. The male, on the right, is sometimes called a "baldpate," which means baldheaded, because of the white stripe on its head. Something to look forward to! |
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| Tired of being kept indoors by the cold, I ventured out yesterday to look at this new Brooklyn park. It was pretty darned cold, about 25 F, and I didn't stay long. Click here for information about and directions to the park. Click here for a great place to have lunch while you are there. |
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| The park is surrounded by industrial waterfront buildings from an earlier age. Click to enlarge the photos. |
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| In the park, a flock of cold-looking ring-billed gulls, Larus delawarensis, were standing on the ice. |
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| More cold-looking gulls hunkered down on the rocks. |
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| The rocks by the shore were icy. |
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| A few Canada geese, Branta canadensis, were walking through the dry grass. |
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| A pair of American wigeons (Anas penelope) swam by. The male is on the left and the female on the right. |
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| A few rafts of bufflehead ducks (Bucephala albeola) swam offshore. |
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| One of the buffleheads caught an arthropod snack! |
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| Closer! |
