Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

My first of year Wood Duck sighting and a visual delight!

 

"O birds, your perfect virtues bring,

Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,

Your manners for your heart’s delight,

Nestle in hedge, or barn, or roof,

Here weave your chamber weather-proof,

Forgive our harms, and condescend

To man, as to a lubber friend,

And, generous, teach his awkward race

Courage, and probity, and grace!"

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Done