Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) - 08Dec2012 & 03Feb2023

The duck formerly known as Oldsquaw.  This particularly dapper male was amazingly found on the fresh water Carolina Beach Lake in the center of CB next to a noisy playground.  He was especially bold for this species and stuck around for a couple weeks.  At the time I did not have a very good camera, so this was taken without a zoom on my wife's Canon Rebel.  That is how close he was.

Here is an immature bird from some random retention pond in Wilmington in 2023.