25 October 2014 Carter Co., TN Elizabethton - Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park This morning, nine participants on the Sycamore Shoals October Birdwalk (led by Bryan Stevens) observed a female-type Common Merganser. The bird was resting on a rock in the Watauga River upstream from the main area of the park (we observed it from the trail around the sparrow fields). Several photographs were taken. -- Thomas S. McNeil Elizabethton, TN