Diving Duck

[milling73]

Anyone know what duck this is? small black / white diver
There is a cluster each day on Hacienda Golf Course lake
Thank you!

[GoPacers]

Could be Hooded Mergansers. We've seen them in the ponds near our house for the last 2 months or so. They appear to dive as a group. When one goes down it seems that many others follow suit.

Hooded Merganser Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hooded_Merganser/id)

[photo1902]

Maybe a Canvasback?

https://ebird.org/species/canvas

[kcrazorbackfan]

Hooded Merganser’s.

[collie1228]

Thank you for posting this. I've wondered what kind of duck they are too. It's interesting to watch them dive - much different than the Anhingas (snake birds) so common on the ponds in The Villages