A few Hooded Mergansers are hanging around Ferrari Pond. I’ve been told that there are even a couple of pairs that swim in the pond above the waterfall that I walk by each morning. However, to get to them requires walking across part of the golf course, something I’m reluctant to do after being admonished by a golfer who told me in no uncertain terms that I was walking on a path restricted to golf carts, no foot traffic. At least at Ferrari Pond I don’t have to worry about a golfer yelling at me. This female Hooded Merganser was swimming lazily in the pond the other day, then something either startled her or caught her attention and she ran across the water for several yards before settling down again.