Peggy and I walked our near trail after work and were stunned to see one gorgeous wood duck drake in a pond we walk by. I didn't have my camera—a lesson I learn every time I leave my camera home. But this is what we saw, one of the most beautiful of all ducks.
By BS Thurner Hof (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons