Rondeau Ric

Not saying it is cold or anything but the air temperature was 28F (-2.2C) and the water temperature was 42F (5.5C) when we saw two surfers in Lake Ontario near Burlington, Ontario on January 14, 2020.

Cruisin' , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. This is the king eider we went to see at Bronte Harbour. At first he was sitting at the edge of the ice with his head down making him hard to see or id. He finally started swimming around and moved to an ice shelf where  two female eiders were. He got up and walked around like a penguin. Very unduck like. He is in non breeding plumage. Somateria spectabilis The female King Eider alone attends the nest. When an intruder is present, the female sits low on the nest with her head flattened on the ground. She sits tightly on the eggs and sometimes can be touched or picked up off of the nest.

Red Throated loon , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. We were looking for another bird, which we didn't see, when we spotted this red throated loon. It's in non breeding plumage so it doesn't have a red throat. It was a fair way out in the lake but I was able to get a reasonable photo of this life bird. Gavia Stellata