My quest for Common Merganser merglings has finally paid off: from Myers Park this morning I observed a female with nine ducklings resting on a log at the mouth of Salmon Creek. They then swam off into the lake and round to the north reaching the Salt Point boat launch. But by the time I got myself over there they had disappeared and I could not relocate them. But I did get some distant shots at first and below is the link to one of them (full disclosure: substantial crop and distracting sticks removed from the background)
http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Common-Merganser/G0000Csx4XEK4oHo/I0000585cXPqTpgY/C0000gPnR25d.5jw Hope to get many more opportunities in the coming days. Other Salt Pt delights were: Willow Flycatcher building a nest So many Baltimore Orioles singing! Orchard Orioles singing Belted Kingfisher (male and female separately) seen several times carrying fish Blue-gray Gnatcatchers buzzing Cedar Waxwings gathering nest material Also checked Stewart Park but no merglings there yet that I could see. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin Available here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/G0000NlCxX37uTzE/C0000BPFGij6nLfE -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
