We love watching these beautifully colored, red-breasted merganser pairs and groups frequent our backyard all winter. This year, 6 to 8 of them would work as a team to scour the canal for food, working as a group like the cormorants do in the spring.
Soon we’ll be saying goodbye to these along with the bufflehead, black and probably even mallard ducks as well as the hooded mergansers, green-winged teals and brant geese as they migrate to their summer grounds and give way to our summer egrets, herons, terns and gulls.
For a short video of these red-breasted mergansers behind our house, SCROLL DOWN…