A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill ...

The females are pretty cool, too, in the classically understated way of female birds. The wood duck is one of seven species of North American ducks that regularly nest in natural cavities.

I saw hooded mergansers on Sugar Creek, which is outside of Troy. I knew before long we would be seeing many species of ducks. All waterfowl migrate. It is believed that most waterfowl return to mate ...