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Jerry Corsi

Common Merganser - Mergus merganser
Fall / winter visitor in small numbers, these diving birds are great underwater swimmers,
disappearing from view and covering a surprising distance before bobbing to the surface.
Note the "saw-toothed" bill for gripping fish.

Surf Scoter - Melanitta perspicillata
Male adult, "all ahead full" to get away from the pesky photographer and that infurnal outrigger,
pushing a pretty good bow wave and kicking up quite a wake. Scoters would rather paddle away
than fly and seldom present us with anything other than a "going away as fast as I can" view.

Truly a unique bill, but it serves the Scoter well. Colorful and very powerful, it is capable of
ripping limpets, marine snails and mussels from pilings, which the bird then
swallows - s hell and all. Good reason to have a gizzard.

Western Gull - Larus occidentalis
Calm water, calm gull. Westerns pay very little attention to the canoes unless you are paddling
away from Giovanni's with a large order of french fries.

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