I just came back from a birding tour. We saw black-crowned night herons, anhingas, cormorants, northern shovelers, a coot, great blue and little blue herons, marsh and other hawks, a kestrel, egrets, sandpipers, etc. Then, right as we were about to leave, an osprey rushed by with a fish in its talons. As we were watching it, another bird came flying in really fast. It was a bald eagle! It dove after the osprey into the marsh. When the birds came back up, they flew in different directions, but neither had the fish. After that, I saw a duck fly in to a nearby pond. If I hadn't have noticed it fly in, we would have missed about 10 hooded mergansers. These are really beautiful diving ducks. Males are black and white, and females are brown with funky little "hairdos". We were quiet and able to get really close to them. I could have stood there forever just "drinking" them in!
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