Summer Visitors
My usual ducks all migrate for the summer. I am left with Herons, Canada Geese, Cormorants, Eagles, and lots of Gulls. It is enough to keep me entertained but I am watching closely now for my first fall returning ducks.
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Common Merganser Family
This brood of Common Merganser ducklings was photographed by my nephew, Jason, in Taylor creek near South Lake Tahoe recently. I see large numbers of Common Mergansers here in the winter. They are known to congregate in large numbers at prime sites. But they are gone now here. They like
Merganser Parade
I was treated to a Common Merganser Parade yesterday. Always a treat. They have been hanging around lately down by the creek. And they put on parades occasionally.
Loons are back!
I saw my first Common Loon of the spring yesterday and he is here again this morning. He is right on schedule. The Loons appear in early April and are here through May. They return again for September and October. I am very pleased that I am on their migration
Red Breasted Mergansers
This group of male and female Red Breasted Mergansers has been hanging around. They are beautiful ducks that often appear in large groups. No matter how many come by, I always enjoy them.
About jansbird
I am a retired teacher. I taught high school physics and for the last 16 years was a high school principal. In my first 10 years of retirement I taught part-time at the University of Puget Sound and ran a small non-profit school reform shop called Coalition of Essential Schools Northwest. At UPS I taught teachers how to be principals and at CES Northwest I helped schools implement the principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national school reform program. Now I am really retired and pursuing my other interests full time. I have always been interested in natural history, the identification of living things. My formal science training is in Physics. I have very little formal education in nature but I have always enjoyed nature and living outside and being interested in what I see there. I like water and beaches and over the years have learned about most of the creatures found there. My interest in birds started by watching herons and ducks at my family cabin on Whidbey Island. That led to learning to identify other kinds of birds. I now know most of the local birds. When I moved to Gig Harbor I began keeping a log of the ducks and birds I saw coming and going. This blog is primarily to publish the data collected in those logs.
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