We have a bunch of birds that are regulars at Juanita Bay which I will still photograph but that don’t stand out.  Then, when you walk along the shore and you see a flash of something different, you quickly change direction.  I was walking along the shore back towards the park when a white bird came into view and I saw it was a merganser.  I reversed course and managed to get some shots before it too reversed course and disappeared behind the foliage.  I was able to get some further shots further across the bay later, but they weren’t as close as this initial encounter.  Sadly, the sun had not come up very far.  It was a sunny morning, but it was midwinter and the trees were providing plenty of shade this early in the day.