I was driving beside the Trent river this afternoon when I noticed what I thought were some seagulls on the river. Taking a better look I noticed that these "seagulls" were diving under the water in groups.
I pulled the car over to the side of the road to take a closer look and discovered that they were indeed bufflehead ducks, about 15-20 of them. They were only about 25 meters out and were playing and diving.
In the years that I have lived here I have never seen any buffleheads on the Trent river here. There are plenty around north of here (bagged 13 of them this past season) but, have never seen them this far into April.
It was a pretty cool site to see, buffleheads diving, 2 mallards swimming, a white swan and 1 Canada goose just hanging out.
No pics, didn't have a camera with me.
And last night, had the new boat out and was just enjoying a lazy paddle down this little river when around the bend I came across a small group of mallards playing. Got to within 30 feet of them before they noticed me and flew away. Nature sure is beautiful in the spring.
I pulled the car over to the side of the road to take a closer look and discovered that they were indeed bufflehead ducks, about 15-20 of them. They were only about 25 meters out and were playing and diving.
In the years that I have lived here I have never seen any buffleheads on the Trent river here. There are plenty around north of here (bagged 13 of them this past season) but, have never seen them this far into April.
It was a pretty cool site to see, buffleheads diving, 2 mallards swimming, a white swan and 1 Canada goose just hanging out.
No pics, didn't have a camera with me.
And last night, had the new boat out and was just enjoying a lazy paddle down this little river when around the bend I came across a small group of mallards playing. Got to within 30 feet of them before they noticed me and flew away. Nature sure is beautiful in the spring.
