#110 January 28, 2006 Long-tailed Duck - Clangula hyemalis (Barnegat Light, NJ)

Ducks, I love 'em. The way water beads and trails off the feathers, their voice and colors.

I saw LTDs at SH, a cold January which clocked in a few duck spp at the Hook. The plumage is almost like a photo negative than that of breeding specimen, the tail is indeed long, at times curving from duck to air to water, like a dark living rainbow.