Mergansers

[Paul Hamilton]

No peregrines to watch here on Sandy Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, so I have been getting by with loons and mergansers.  I love to watch and listen to the loons, especially when going to sleep at light, but the resident  flock of nine Common Mergansers provides top notch entertainment several times a day.  They do everything in a tight group, staying much closer together than the Mallards.  They are diving ducks with serrated bills for catching fish, and are constantly disappearing below the surface and reappearing some distance away.  Here they are, just hanging out on their favorite rock.

Paul

[Donna]

Nice Paul and thanks. I remember your Loon videos. They do sound so eerie at night but in a good way!!

[Kris G.]

No peregrines to watch here on Sandy Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, so I have been getting by with loons and mergansers.  I love to watch and listen to the loons, especially when going to sleep at light, but the resident  flock of nine Common Mergansers provides top notch entertainment several times a day.  They do everything in a tight group, staying much closer together than the Mallards.  They are diving ducks with serrated bills for catching fish, and are constantly disappearing below the surface and reappearing some distance away.  Here they are, just hanging out on their favorite rock.

Paul

Pretty birds, Paul!  When I was young, every year I would go with my grandparents on a 2-week vacation to Canada. I loved, even as a kid, the sounds of the loons and watching them out on the lake. Good memories.

[valhalla]

No peregrines to watch here on Sandy Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, so I have been getting by with loons and mergansers.  I love to watch and listen to the loons, especially when going to sleep at light, but the resident  flock of nine Common Mergansers provides top notch entertainment several times a day.  They do everything in a tight group, staying much closer together than the Mallards.  They are diving ducks with serrated bills for catching fish, and are constantly disappearing below the surface and reappearing some distance away.  Here they are, just hanging out on their favorite rock.

Paul

Thanks!  I miss these guys.  I hope they visit Smith Mountain Lake, VA!

[Lynne in New Hampshire]

No peregrines to watch here on Sandy Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, so I have been getting by with loons and mergansers.  I love to watch and listen to the loons, especially when going to sleep at light, but the resident  flock of nine Common Mergansers provides top notch entertainment several times a day.  They do everything in a tight group, staying much closer together than the Mallards.  They are diving ducks with serrated bills for catching fish, and are constantly disappearing below the surface and reappearing some distance away.  Here they are, just hanging out on their favorite rock.

Paul

Thanks!  I miss these guys.  I hope they visit Smith Mountain Lake, VA!

You sure had a great weather week up here Paul!!

[Bonnie]

You take the best vacations.  I have to post my merganser in the waves picture.  Yes, they are entertaining.  And I have a loon here, too.  Guess I'm on vacation every day now.

Can't wait for the rest of the pics.

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