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Charles River, January 2015

I'd been hoping to see some mergansers. The river was more open than I expected, meaning the mergansers mostly kept their distance, but while chasing them I had several close encounters with other species.
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This is a hybrid:
American Black Duck X Mallard.


Red-tailed hawk

Buteo jamaicensis
(immature)

Hooded Merganser (male)
Lophodytes cucullatus

Hooded Merganser (female)
Lophodytes cucullatus

Hooded Merganser

Hooded Merganser

Hooded Merganser

Black-Capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus

Black-Capped Chickadee

Front: Hooded Merganser
Rear: Common Merganser

Hooded Mergansers

Red-Tailed hawk

Buteo jamaicensis
(immature)

House sparrow
(male)

Same species, different individual
(note beak color)

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottus

Grabbing berries

Northern Mockingbird

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker
Picoides pubescens

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

American Robin
Turdus migratorius

American Robin

American Robin

American Robin

American Robin

American Robin

Hooded Merganser with crayfish

ice-covered rocks

Hooded Merganser

Canada Geese
Branta canadensis