Sunday bird blogging

It's been another one of those weeks. Here's a handsome Northern Shoveler in the Central Park Reservoir by way of compensation.

Bird blogging, Valentine's Day edition

Here are a pair of Northern Shovelers and one of Hooded Mergansers from the Central Park reservoir for your Valentine's Day viewing pleasure.

In other bird romance news, the talk of the reservoir has been the unlikely pairing of the male wood duck whose picture I posted a few weeks ago with a female mallard. Are they just friends? Or will we see a new duck hybrid species later this spring? Inquiring minds (and bored birders waiting for the bald eagle to show up) want to know!

Sunday bird blogging

Here's a potential mate for the male hooded merganser I posted last week: a pretty female, swimming in the Central Park reservoir.

And still more El Yeso

Here's a picture with some of the group walking along the road and down by the water to give a sense of the scale of this beautiful place. Plus flowers.

More of El Yeso

El Yeso

The sun came and went all day, and the color of the water in El Yeso reservoir shifted with every change in the light, going from steely blue to deep emerald and every shade in between.

After stopping for photos at this lookout, we drove along the very bumpy dirt road you can see on the right to a rocky beach on the far end, where we had a picnic.