When you have to bundle up in all your rain gear before venturing out, and the temperature doesn’t budge above 3 degrees even in the middle of the day….
You are hard pressed to remember that we are now actually in the month of April! What a dismal day!!
All the wet at least brought out some water fowl…there were a pair of Canada Geese here, and another pair flew past… also in this area were some Green Wing Teal, those 3 little Bufflehead from yesterday and a couple of pairs of Hooded Merganser..
Over at the log bay a few more Green Wing Teal, the pair of Brewer’s Blackbird, …
and Robins out there on the gravel, also one Song Sparrow…
Here is one of the American Robins…just to remind us it really is spring!
Steller’s Jay were very active and calling all over the place…as they have been for the past few weeks..
Down at the end of this bay,
there were some Common Merganser…1 male (on the left) and a harem of 7 females (5 in picture). This is typical….Common Merganser aren’t a species that form a pair and raise a family together. Male Common Merganser do their thing and then all the males take off and spend the summers together on isolated mountain lakes, leaving the females to cope with nest building, egg laying and hatching and raising the young…which they do by working together which is why, when the time comes, you will often see large flotillas of young common mergansers, accompanied by several adult females.
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