This female Common Mergansers looks like she is scared of something and hiding like my cat yesterday in the thunderstorm, but instead the duck is looking for fish and in a blink of an eye, she is gone under the water. Common Mergansers are sometimes called sawbills, fish ducks, or goosanders. The word “merganser” comes from the Latin and roughly translates to “plunging goose”, which is a good name for this very large and often submerged duck.
Common Merganser
