{"id":123760,"date":"2024-03-13T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=123760"},"modified":"2025-05-08T06:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T11:27:32","slug":"immature-common-merganser-shaking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/03\/13\/immature-common-merganser-shaking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Common Merganser Shaking Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a simple photo of an immature Common Merganser today. I took this image of the merganser on the Bear River almost two years ago on a bright, sunny morning.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Common Merganser shaking off water on the Bear River \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/4000, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The immature merganser had come up from a dive and was shaking off the cold water when I photographed it.<\/p>\n

I had had a kind of slow morning with birds on the auto tour loop, which made me especially happy to find this Common Merganser. That winter and the next, I found quite a lot of Common Mergansers at the refuge and close to home.<\/p>\n

This winter? Not so much. It has been a very strange winter, here in the lower elevations of northern Utah.<\/p>\n

Spring is less than a week away now. Maybe I will get to see and photograph a few more Common Mergansers<\/span><\/a> before they head to their breeding grounds. I won’t hold my breath though!<\/p>\n

Later this week, the weather is supposed to get sunnier. I sure hope so. I’m itching to get back out into the field.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Common Merganser photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a simple photo of an immature Common Merganser today. I took this image of the merganser on the Bear River almost two years ago on a bright, sunny morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,27,1148,476,26],"tags":[4529,976,4711,4753,6239,4067,4705,4239,11852,5558,14806,3996,2063,5498,373],"class_list":["post-123760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-common-mergansers","category-utah","tag-bear-river","tag-common-merganser","tag-diving-duck","tag-diving-ducks","tag-flapping","tag-immature","tag-merganser","tag-mergus-merganser","tag-ranchlands","tag-river","tag-shaking-off","tag-water","tag-waterfowl","tag-wings","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t