We have a little minimum maintenance road we like to take along the Mississippi.  Wanting to check out the birds overroad our common sense, and we went "mud bogging"  with a Buick LeSabre. We barely made it out, but we did get this shot of Common Mergansers in the backwaters of the Mississippi River.  Three males following one female....ahhhh, spring.   TO VIEW MORE PHOTOS, GO UP AND TO THE RIGHT AND CLICK APRIL, 2013 OR ANY OTHER ARCHIVED MONTH.