Tuesday, 15 March 2016

[Maine-birds] tree swallow and impressive merganser flock

Today I have only seen a single Tree Swallow foraging above downtown Gardiner, mostly staying quite high but occasionally dropping a bit lower over the stream and parking lot areas but there is a nice looking flock of more than 200 Common Mergansers, mostly males, cavorting around in a fairly tight-knit group in the Kennebec River off the boat landing in Gardiner. Very cool! Luckily for the swallow, despite the cool temps and rain  I have seen some flying insects.

 

Jeff Wells

 

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