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From: Dorothy M. Tella <>
To: VA-Bird <>
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: [va-bird] Riverbend Park: Common Merganser with ducklings


>Hello VA-Birders:
>
>About 6:45 this evening at Riverbend Park (Fairfax County) I saw a female
>Common Merganser on the Potomac with (as best I could count) 17 ducklings.
>They were about a half mile upstream from the visitor center in a part of
>the river that is filled with rocks and small islands.  I had my Minolta
10X
>digital camera with me and took some photos of the family while swimming
and
>then settled on a rock.  I counted the ducklings as they were swimming, but
>they were moving at the speed of light and were, of course, usually in a
>tight cluster, so I relied on the photos to try to confirm my count.
>
>These ducklings are very cute, well worth a trip to Riverbend!
>
>Dorothy Tella
>McLean, VA
>
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