Hooray for common Mergansers!!
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Subject: [TN-Bird] Common Mergansers brood amalgamation: Blount and Sevier
Counties TN
On July 19, 2022, Kat Barrow and others observed a brood amalgamation of 45
Common Mergansers on the Little River in Townsend TN (Blount County) near the
Sunshine Bridge. Observers there believe this to represent at least 4 broods.
Today, 8/9/22, I relocated an amalgamation of 23 Common Mergansers on the
Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River in Sevier County TN along Hwy 416 near
the Sam Ellis Bridge (originally reported by Richard Watts). Having only seen 8
young previously on this river, this total likely represents three broods,
given certain averages.
There sure are a lot of Common Mergansers in our cold mountain streams here on
the west side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park!
And no one to my knowledge has surveyed the west Prong of the Little Pigeon
River that flows through Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, another cold mountain
stream flowing out of the Smokies!
Keith Watson
8/9/2022
Sevier County TN
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