Our New Home on Cherry Pond

Our new house sits on the SE corner of Cherry Pond, our water (retention) feature. Our back yard is a large deck facing ~NNW, perhaps 5m above the pond.

The pond hosts several species of ducks (mostly just passing through I think, but the first three below have been here every day for our first winter here). The following pictures were mostly taken from our deck. Apologies for the blurry ones (light is getting low here in the NW in the morning); the blurry ones will be replaced as soon as better are available.

Mallard (daily)

Gadwall (Daily Autumn-Spring))

Bufflehead (daily)

Eurasian (Common) Teal (Winter)

Green-winged Teal (Autumn-Winter-Spring)

Ring-necked Duck(Autumn, Spring)

Lesser Scaup (Autumn), Spring)

Hooded Merganser (Autumn)

Common Merganser (Autumn)

 Canada Goose (Autumn, Spring)

Also observed: American Wigeon, Osprey

Postscript

The pond changes its characteristics in winter.

Pictured above is our one snow flurry of an otherwise Snowless in Seattle winter.