Ah, for the days when I imagined that bird identification was simply a matter of checking off significant features. What I am discovering as...

Here's another sign of how cold it has been in Victoria recently. Usually these Northern Shoveler Ducks are not seen on the shores of t...

When I first saw this duck I wasn't too sure what it was. Then I saw that distinctive long flat bill and knew it was a Northern Shoveler...

Here's another new (for me) kind of duck that I saw while out at Rithet's Bog the other day. The two birds on the left are a pair o...