[EBB Sightings] Lake Merritt local interest

Bruce Mast wrote:

> Mew Gull numbers are up

I saw a couple in the park between MacArthur and the library this 
afternoon. (Didn't get over to the lake.)

> Common Merganser still around

That's good to hear! We couldn't find him last Wednesday.

> The usual suspects include continuing Tufted Duck, Redhead, Barrow's
> Goldeneye, and the Barrow's Merganser (or is that the Hooded Goldeneye?)

Hooded Goldeneye, assuming the probable father goes first. I figure it 
was Mr. Merganser that got lucky and Ms. Goldeneye that raised the 
chick, because he acts like a goldeneye and eats goldeneye food - 
mussels and such - that really doesn't fit his fish-eating merganser beak.

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