Wildlife at Notre Dame...

Mergansers: Bringing some class to St. Joseph's Lake

...is exotic. Still, you need a trained eye to point it out so it can be appreciated. Fr. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C., botanist, theologian, and Steds regular Sunday priest, captured these exotic ducks on St. Joseph's Lake. For you and I, these are "extra special" ducks, but for Fr. Ehrman, these ducks are actually "hooded mergansers." Of course, hooded mergansers! On capturing this wild wildlife at Notre Dame, Fr. Ehrman said, "Hooded mergansers are uncommon in general but are common winter visitors here at Notre Dame. One would have to have a heart of stone not to marvel and be drawn up into praise of God for their wondrous being. They are certainly God's art." Indeed, they are Fr. Ehrman... indeed they are!