Subject: RE: Merganser chicks.
Date: Jun 15 14:46:46 1998
From: "Li, Kevin" - Kevin.Li at METROKC.GOV


Last week Kris Baker and I observed about 18 chicks with a female common
merganser inside Andrews Bay by Seward Park; she could only carry about 7 on
her back at any one time, it was quite a sight. They were very close to
shore, not far from the swimming beach by the south end of the bay.

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http://splash.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/lakes/index.htm

Kevin Li
King County Environmental Lab
322 W. Ewing St.
Seattle, WA 98119-1507

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> From: Martin J. Muller[SMTP:martinmuller at email.msn.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 8:06 AM
> To: tweeters
> Cc: mcallkrm at dfw.wa.gov
> Subject: Re: Merganser chicks.
>
> Tweetsters,
>
> Kelly McAllister wrote:
>
> >It's my understanding that Common Mergansers nest along streams.
>
> I thought I had read that too...
>
> Last month I discovered a common merganser nest in the broken top of one
> of
> the older fir trees in Seward Park. The park is on a peninsula in Lake
> Washington (for non-locals) in Seattle. Don't know if they were successful
> or not, but if anyone sees merganser chicks in that part of Lake
> Washington....
>
> Martin Muller, Seattle
> MartinMuller at email.msn.com
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