Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Mergus

Usually when I see Common Mergansers, they are far, far away, but yesterday I got lucky with this female when she swam past us, with her mate, on the creek in Fish Creek Park. Taken on 28 April 2013, near Hull's Wood. These birds sure can move fast .

We were lucky enough to see this pair of beautiful Common Mergansers swimming in liquid silver in the creek at Griffith Woods yesterday morning. Not sure why their eyes came out like this - looks almost as if I used flash - but these ducks were way in the distance. Fully zoomed and heavily cropped : ) Though the morning started off overcast, the sun eventually came out and it was just beautiful out. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Merganser/id/ac en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Merganser