On the way back from a teaching job I saw, through the trees along the bank, a duck pop to the surface of the Schuylkill River. As it swam away from me at an angle I couldn’t miss the bold white patch on its black head. The male hooded merganser had apparently been diving to catch fish or some other unlucky critter below, and now it swam a moment before…
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