Ducks

I was checking Wysox Creek today and found this small flock of common mergansers (Mergus merganser) swimming next to the bridge. These fish-eating ducks are found in small streams where they will swim up streams as a group looking for fish and crustaceans.



Female common mergansers (left) have a tufted red-brown head with its back and sides silver-gray and the breast and belly are white. The male common mergansers (right) have a greenish-black crested head and upper neck. The lower neck, breast and underside are creamy-white.