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Common Eider At Rock Harbor In Orleans On Cape Cod.

This Common Eider was putting on quite a show at Rock Harbor the other day. He was so funny! (Click on blog link for other photos.)

There are a lot of Eiders here on the Cape in the winter. You can see flocks of them flying by… they look like the black and white wind toys!

Have you seen any Common Eiders this season so far? Beautiful bird, don’t you think?

Gorgeous Long-Tailed Duck At Rock Harbor On Cape Cod.

We were having a picnic lunch at Rock Harbor when I spotted this beautiful Long-tailed Duck diving for food in the harbor.

Did you know that “The long-tailed duck, formerly known as the oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.” That sure is a long way to come!

Beautiful bird, don’t you think?