Ok, they are feathers, right? I think this is a flock of Red-Breasted Mergansers. I took this in Puget Sound from Marrowstone Island on October 30, 2021.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: stagefright.

“Hey! You messed up my mohawk!”
Ok, they are feathers, right? I think this is a flock of Red-Breasted Mergansers. I took this in Puget Sound from Marrowstone Island on October 30, 2021.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: stagefright.
“Hey! You messed up my mohawk!”
I saw a flock of birds way out in the water last week. I zoomed in and took the photograph pretty blindly. The flock is getting bigger. I think they are getting ready for their yearly travels
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: team.
The mergansers were enjoying the sun just as much as we were yesterday.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: amirite?
the problem with angels
is that they aren’t grey
nor do they have color
they are black
or white
sort of boring, really
pick one side
good or evil
night or day
male or female
I would rather be fluid
I want to be able to transform
liquid to solid
solid to gas
gas to solid
gas to liquid
flow around things
seep into the earth
always always
return to the sea
keep your wings
project black or white
as you choose
on me
while I flick water at you
and go for a swim
_____________________
written 2014
A hooded merganser on the water, last spring.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: mettlesome.
I took this Monday, after walking to my cold dark clinic, pulling paper back up charts and calling everyone to cancel.
Which duck would I be? The crested one, asleep.
I do not sleep through my Rotary meetings nor my clinic meetings, since my clinic has been open for ten years. However, I was very skilled at sleeping though hospital administration meetings. I was tired from being on call!
It was still freezing out, yet this small duck slept on. I think it’s a hooded merganser. I thinks its a pretty mettlesome place to nap.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: white.
This is a male common merganser, swimming on the C & O Canal. I took this earlier this week.
We did not have binoculars, but I thought it was a merganser because of the feather mohawk on the female.
Today’s Mundane Monday Challenge #175 is “line up”. (It’s already Monday in parts of the world!)
The parent merganser led the rested group down the rock and into the water. They swam by us in a line, bunching up when the parent realized we weren’t rocks.
Submissions to last week’s challenge water color:
KLAllendorfer: waters of many colors.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: tenacious.
Here is the parent merganser with the young, all groomed in the morning sun and resting in the early morning sun. I counted ten of the young in the other photographs. A lot of parenting work.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: bird.
This is the second time that I have been blessed by mergansers! I am sitting on the front rocks, which face east, with P in the early morning. Tea, journal and camera. Camera just in case. The family of mergansers swam around the point and we froze. They came up on the rocks, about 15 feet from us. I took pictures and otherwise we held very still. The family groomed themselves. One settled facing the woods and the others slowly settled, the parent bird still on the alert. After they rested enjoying the early sun, the parent led them back in the water and they swam along the rocks in front of us.
I read an article about productivity yesterday. It talked about taking breaks and more importantly breaks outdoors. A study of work after breaks showed that people thought an outdoor break was better than an indoor one for relaxation, but the measured effect was even greater than expected.
I can only be blessed by mergansers if I go outside and wait and am quiet. I feel so blessed.
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