Interactions among wildlife are plentiful and make for interesting viewing. Many of these involve predators and prey, but other forms of competition and cooperation are observed.
Having recently shown merganser competition, it was now fun to watch as a family of Common Mergansers ignored a passing Spotted Sandpiper. Neither species saw the other as a threat.
Hi Alistair,
Curious to know if this is the same Merganser family as your previous post? These have grown considerably and seem to have fewer members. Just curious.
Bill
Bill, it is not the same family. The second family was about nine kilometres upstream from the first family (as the merganser flies, and the chicks don’t fly yet).