Lovely comments! This did a bit better than I had expected. Certainly it is the Mergansers who bring this home. Don't know the other ducks, whether I saw them properly or whether I can pull them closer from my file....
Some day I too will speak of haiku with confidence.
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Mergansers and a heron and ... a pair of ducks, maybe loons? Can't quite make them out. Not a tack sharp detailed scene but very familiar to me. There is always a branch or something where I don't want it and I get all perfectionist and clone it out. This is so much more real. I find myself liking the subtle framing and main diagonal line of the branch.