Male Common Goldeneye Wood Print

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The Common Goldeneye is a diving duck that forages underwater on aquatic vertebrates and small fish. Female Common Goldeneyes are renowned for using other Goldeneye nests as well as nests of other ducks to lay their eggs. This behaviour is common to other species of ducks like Wood Ducks and Common Mergansers as well. In some cases a female Goldeneye will abandon her chicks soon after hatching forcing the young to join other female broods in a mixed brood known as a "creche"

I'm a retired teacher living in Southern Ontario, Canada. I worked 35 years full time and 10 years part time as a classroom teacher and guidance counselor with the Peel District School Board. I also worked part time in the Faculties of Education of York University and the University of Toronto in their Additional Qualifications Programs. I purchased my first SLR camera back in the 60's and instantly fell in love with photography. My love of the outdoors led to my keen interest in hiking and nature/wildlife photography. My hiking and photography excursions have taken me on trips to East Africa, the Canadian and American Rockies, Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), Ecuador and the Galapagos Archipelago, Costa Rica and Florida and will...