By Mia McPherson|2024-03-13T10:28:50-05:00January 27th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Pied-billed Grebes, Utah|Tags: aggressive, biting, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, first winter, grebe, grebes, ice, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Pied-billed Grebe, plopped, Podilymbus podiceps, preening, rested, serrated bill, shore, stretching, water, wing flap, wing flapping, winter, young|
Yesterday morning I spotted a lone Common Merganser at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area nearly hidden in some phragmites and when we came around the corner the bird seemed to have disappeared but after a bit it came out from its hiding spot and gave us quite a show.
