Feb 19, 2011: View/download wallpaper size (1920х1080, 0,41 M). A couple of birds were swimming in the fog under the brigde. At first I thought that these are default seagulls, but when I took a closer look… «Look, this is not a seagull. Nor a mallard. It`s… it`s a sort of merganser? o_o» — I told to Andrei. And, yes, that was a merganser: the thin slender bill with a hooked end makes identification of these ducks very obvious. I felt like I got into augmented reality. Look: I went out for a walk, it`s freezing cold, it`s a center of a big city. And at this walk I took photos of birds I`ve never seen before in real life, I only saw them in picture books. And it`s the center of the city. It`s freezing cold and February. Is it possible?

species Common merganser Mergus merganser