Has anyone seen the mergansers (all either young or females) at Huntley Meadows?  When I was there on Father's Day with my family I looked at them only briefly and thought they were common or red-breasted mergansers based on body shape (longer looking than hoodeds) but upon my return I noticed in the yellow book that only hoodeds are to be expected here at this time of year.  I saw three of these in the section of Huntley Meadows that still has water in it.  They were all sitting on logs with some mallards.

Michel Cavigelli

Michel A. Cavigelli
Research Soil Scientist
Sustainable Agriculture Systems Lab
USDA-ARS, BARC
Bldg 001, Rm 140
10300 Baltimore Ave
Beltsville, MD 20705

(301) 504-8327 phone
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>>> Chris Starling <> 07/01/05 08:53AM >>>
Greetings,

More out of season waterfowl in cecil yesterday as I found an (appearently) 
injured Common Merganser in North East.  The bird was sitting on the sand 
across from the town park (in North East Creek).  One of it's wings was 
drooping to the ground. Other than that in seemed healthy.  It is a mature 
male.

Additionally, I had a Yellow-billed Cuckoo and a Least Tern in my yard on 
Hances Point (cecil).

Good Biridng,
Chris Starling
North East, MD


>From: sean mccandless <>
>Reply-To: sean mccandless <>
>To:  
>Subject: [MDOSPREY] Canvasback in Cecil plus other shore birds
>Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:54:56 -0400
>
>I sometimes drive by this sediment pond that was built last year for 
>drainage for a neighborhood just south of Elkton. Today I stopped in and 
>did a brief scan to find a Canvasback swimming about. This was a first for 
>me here and a first in June. It is a Adult Male, in perfect plumage.
>Other birds include; Little blue Heron-1, Great blue Heron-1, Cattle 
>Egret-1, Gloss Ibis 3, Least Sandpiper-1, Killdeer-6, Mallard-2, 
>Rough-winged Swallow-2.
>
>Sean McCandless
>Elkton, MD
> 

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