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Freeleo1

07/15/2021 12:37PM

I know this isn't a great picture. I had to blow it up quite a bit. We flushed this duck while we were fishing and it was on a rock when we passed by. I can't find anything in my bird books that matches if very well.

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." Terry Pratchett

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thebotanyguy

07/15/2021 01:42PM

It is a merganser, my best guess is that it is an immature common merganser.

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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