We believe the duck is a white-winged scoter. It stayed a couple of hours and then moved on. Canada geese, common mergansers, northern shoveller, mallards, black ducks and one pair of American wigeon are some of the other waterfowl nesting along the Petitcodiac River in Salisbury. In early June the mallards and Canada geese had hatchlings. The great-looking eastern kingbirds were gathering nesting material in our backyard. - Susan Kierstead and Alan Austin, Salisbury Yes, this duck is indeed a male white-winged scoter. It's a sea duck that nests in the Arctic in summer and spends most of the rest of the year on salt water along either the east or west coasts. As scoters migrate north along the Eastern Seaboard in spring many are naturally funnelled into the Bay of Fundy as they hug the coastline. At the head of the bay they must cross land for the first time since the previous fall; most fly up either the Petitcodiac or Memramcook rivers and cross the isthmus to the Northumberland Strait somewhere north of the bridge to P.E.I. From there, they continue their northward journey to their nesting grounds. Most don't stop to rest, so this bird was an exception and provided a good opportunity for a photograph. - Jim Wilson