Red-breasted Merganser - Port McNeil, BC
Sometimes when you are patient, the birds will come to you. That was the case for us on the city dock while we waited for this Red-breasted Merganser to make his way from just outside the breakwater to with in 15feet of us so we could see that stunning red eye. These "fish ducks" have a serrated bills to keep hold of the fish they find. and mostly found in the salt around British Columbia but breed in the fresh water of the boreal forests and tundra of north.