November 19, 2007 at 6:25pm
Are there two kinds of hooded mergansers ?------- many years ago in Pointe a la Hache I downed a perfect pair , not a feather ruffled in one shot , stone dead so I thought ,they landed 2 feet away from each other , I had them mounted , the coloring on the head was red-ish and the hood taller , very pretty duck , I found Mergansers not good eating , always figured them as fish eaters which made them oily -------------the funny part of that story was when I seen a guy I knew on Paris Rd while heading home , we pulled over to show him fish and ducks and when I opened the Sweggmen's bag that the pair was in to showed them , out jumps the male , he's running down the shoulder of Paris Rd and couldn't get lift off , caught up to him after what seemed like hilarious minutes and he was one hard duck to kill
