So it has been winter and Leslie took these pictures while I was away. The pond was frozen and the birds seem frozen in time.

We had a flock of Common Mergansers back again this week. And, an anomaly, 3 swans on the pond. One was collared but I did not get a chance to ID it properly. By most evidence they were Tundra Swans collared in Alaska last summer. Two of the birds were juveniles and the adult was collared.