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| GREAT BLUE HERON (Ardea herodias). Colored pencil. January 30, 2015. Hamden, Connecticut. |
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| COMMON MERGANSER (Mergus merganser) January 2015, Enfield, Connecticut, on the Connecticut River. |
Jan 30, 2015
Penultimate Day of the AiA Challenge
January 30th. How do you hide a one-meter tall bird? First scrunch it down to half a meter, then make it the color of the winter marsh, then make it perfectly motionless. Today I found this heron in the same little pool where my mergansers and mallards hang out.
Each of the three mergansers in Connecticut has its niche. Our merganser of fresh-water rivers is this one, the Common Merganser. This female shows the diagnostic white chin (which the similar Red-breasted Merganser lacks).
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