Within 5 frames this RBM did a head twist left to right and then upwards, before returning to a normal flight position

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Red Breasted Merganser - Mergus Serrator (Male)

They were playing and chasing each other

Sie spielten und jagten einander vor sich hier

Oslo - Norway

bit of a Kramer look I think

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Oslofjord - Oslo

Norway

Oslo - Norway

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Another shot of the Merganser Family in Grand Teton National Park- out for a swim this time.

Bronte Harbour, Finally had some sun !!

Male and female red-breasted mergansers - Sterling State Park - Monroe, Michigan

Couple... photo taken in low light...

Hofdabrekka, Vík, Suðurland, Iceland

Female red-breasted merganser in Florida before breeding season. She and her Mr. didn't mind me for the longest time and then together.....they decided they did and so struck off where they knew I wouldn't follow.

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Pat...xo

Metzger Marsh - Curtice, Ohio

A Red-breasted Merganser just trying to catch up.

Red-breasted Merganser flyby.

kinda crazy light - the backdrop is made up of condo units on the north side of Lake Ontario in Burlington

Female Red-breasted Merganser.

Male has the dark green head

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Barnegat Jetty, New Jersey, USA.

Females and nonbreeding males are brownish gray overall with a brownish chin, a dingy breast, and a brown shaggy head. In flight both sexes have a prominent white lower wing panel.

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Nikon Z9 camera with Nikon 500mm f5.6 E PF lens.

1/2500 F5.6 ISO 450

Search me, O God, and know my heart:

try me, and know my thoughts:

And see if there be any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24

Flying through some early morning mist.

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

le fil de pêche emmêlé dans les plumes de sa tête assure une touche finale à sa beauté

nul doute que le male qui la suit n'y est pas insensible ..

Le harle tient son nom de son habitude à nager le corps submergé (Mergus, de mergere, submerger).