The Mill River regularly hosts loads of Common Mergansers, but every once in a while I'll spot a pair of Hooded Mergansers on the water. The Common variety have gotten used to me photographing them, but Hooded Mergansers are a lot more skittish. Usually I can get only one or two shots before they take off, fleeing the obnoxious paparazzo. This week, though, I managed to photograph a Hooded couple at length in the Mill Pond above the Brassworks dam. Click the picture above for more photos.
For reference, here's what female and male Common Mergansers look like:
