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| 11/5/12 Kaweco fountain pen, Moleskine sketchbook |
Last winter I spotted a duck with a distinctive “Mohawk”
hairdo at Green Lake. I hadn’t seen it prior to that spotting, and after a few
weeks, it disappeared. I had mentioned all of this to a birdwatcher friend, and
she speculated that what I had seen was a Hooded Merganser. She said that when Mergansers
are seen around here, it’s just a layover on their way to their final
destination, so after a short while, they move on.
The Mergansers are back at Green Lake, where I sketched this
male. I had only a fountain pen with black ink, so I couldn’t capture the brown
color on the lower half of his body. But I’m happy that I got him in my
sketchbook before he flies off again for the year.
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