Lucy, these photos are GREAT! 

 Do you know how often mergs will breed down here?  I had always thought they bred up north, over the summer.  I wonder if, like Canada geese, another duck is learning that they can do as well or better by not migrating?  Sibley's map shows that neither Common nor Red Breasted mergs, in theory, breed much south of Canada (Common breeds over much of Michigan, plus northern Minnesota).

Thanks,

Tom Grahame


On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Lucy Uncu wrote:

> While biking the C&O Canal today from Great Falls to Violette's Lock, we had
> some good birds but the best was a Common Merganser family - Momma and
> babies at Violette's.  We got some fairly good photos.  Here is a link:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/suncu/sets/72157629809218343/
> 
> 
> 
> Otherwise we had several singing Louisiana Waterthrush, several Blue-gray
> Gnatcatchers, 9 Bufflehead, 5 other female Common Mergansers,  3 Blue-winged
> Teal in the pond near Pennyfield, an immature Bald Eagle, two adult
> Red-tailed Hawks and the usual residents.
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