Common Mergansers are streamlined ducks that float gracefully down small
rivers or shallow shorelines. The males are striking with clean white
bodies, dark green heads, and a slender, serrated red bill. The elegant
gray-bodied females have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest. In
summer, look for them leading ducklings from eddy to eddy along streams
or standing on a flat rock in the middle of the current. These large
ducks nest in hollow trees; in winter they form flocks on larger bodies
of water.
This photograph show the overview before I took the previous photograph - and while doing so realized that there were ducks laying on the rock in the top middle right (a little to the left of the large tree on the right hand bank) which then prompted me to take this photo
