Early birds get the fish at the Merrimack River Education and Conservation Area
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- Clean Water
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A great blue heron gets in on the action of a flock of feeding mergansers. All photos by Ellen Kenny.
September, 2015 - On my morning walk along the trails of the Merrimack River Outdoor Education and Conservation Area in East Concord, the river was placid and covered with mist , but when I came
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The kingfisher followed them from snag to snag chattering all the while as they made their way upriver, and the heron buzzed over them like a helicopter.
The mergansers all stopped for a riotous feed at the first beach, and the heron landed right along beside them with the kingfisher making a racket in a tree above. The heron and kingfisher seemed to be cashing in on the mergansers’ fishing strategies.
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