Subject: Large Rafts of Common Mergansers
Date: Aug 14 04:31:35 1999
From: Roger - rcraik at home.com


Hi All......again

I reported these numbers in a post back in April. The rivers being the N and
S Alouette in Pitt Meadows BC.

"There were a couple of flotillas of Common Mergansers (20+ in one river
and 40+ in the other) doing their best to reduce the salmon population."

Roger Craik
Maple Ridge BC
rcraik at home.com


----- Original Message -----
From: <McBrdwchr at aol.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>; <seaotter at eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, 13 August, 1999 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Large Rafts of Common Mergansers


> I've seen rafts of 16 to 18 Common Mergansers in Lake Keechelus,
Desolation
> Sound, B.C., and coasting down the Snoqualmie River past the golf course
> near Fall City. And what about the massive gathering every fall of
> Red-breasteds in the bay west of Deception Pass? Mergansers in the
hundreds!
> Drive to road end past Cranberry Lake, walk out past West Point in late
> October or early November. It helps if you know someone in the area who
can
> clue you in when they arrive.
>
> Amy McQuade
> Mercer Island
> McBrdwchr at aol.com