Surf Scoter                                                    Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus)

The photos below are organized by day of the year.  Clicking on an image thumbnail will take you to a larger photo.  They have also been set up in manual slide show format, so you may view them sequentially without returning to this page.  Images are best viewed full screen at a resolution of 800 x 600 or greater.

Please feel free to e-mail your comments on ages of any of these birds to Michael G. Shepard at info@birdinfo.com  Each of the thumbnails below is numbered for easy reference.