A courting we will go...
What a pleasure to watch these hooded mergansers exhibit their courting behavior. I was at Gunners Lake in Germantown, Maryland, and there was a small flock of about 10 hoodies that weren't terribly far from shore. The males were doing their courtship dance around the hens and each other and I was so excited to both see them do this and capture it for my photo collection. Even better was to listen to the drakes make what I can only describe as a sort of low croaking sound when they had their heads thrown back as in the above photo.
Taken 27 November 2016.
As always, my photos are my own. Please do not use them elsewhere without my permission.
A courting we will go...
What a pleasure to watch these hooded mergansers exhibit their courting behavior. I was at Gunners Lake in Germantown, Maryland, and there was a small flock of about 10 hoodies that weren't terribly far from shore. The males were doing their courtship dance around the hens and each other and I was so excited to both see them do this and capture it for my photo collection. Even better was to listen to the drakes make what I can only describe as a sort of low croaking sound when they had their heads thrown back as in the above photo.
Taken 27 November 2016.
As always, my photos are my own. Please do not use them elsewhere without my permission.