Periodically I will see something unexpected at the lake, like these two mergansers. I've never seen a merganser in brackish water/marsh before, but here they are. They've been hanging around the mallards for a few days now.
Mergansers are fish-eating ducks; they have "sawbilled" beaks to help them grab the fish. The rearmost merganser in this shot has something red on its back, like a leaf is stuck to it or something.
There are two very similar species: the common and the red-breasted (aka more rare). I thiiiink this one is the common, because it has a fairly clear delineation between the red head and grey body, but having never seen the other kind, I'm not really sure.
Mergansers are fish-eating ducks; they have "sawbilled" beaks to help them grab the fish. The rearmost merganser in this shot has something red on its back, like a leaf is stuck to it or something.
There are two very similar species: the common and the red-breasted (aka more rare). I thiiiink this one is the common, because it has a fairly clear delineation between the red head and grey body, but having never seen the other kind, I'm not really sure.
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