Ducking Out of the Crowd

Madam Goldeneye hopped up onto the ice shelf to get out of the fracas. 

She must have gotten tired of all the chasing, diving and carrying on and needed a break.

While she looked on from her safe perch, the group of redheads she had been mixed up with continued diving and popping back up. Can you see the water rolling off the head of the duck that just bobbed to the surface with its back to the camera?

She finally decided to preen and take no further notice of their antics, just as one of the redheads kicked up his heels, making a little, circular wall of water with each of his feet and dove under. You can see the end of his tail disappearing beneath the surface just under the bill of the duck in the center of the photo.