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Back on my first blog of the season I wrote about the lone merganser perched on a rock in Tupper Lake, seeming to be looking for her brood.\u00a0 Well, here’s a happier female common merganser, above, leading three chicks across the waves.\u00a0 Three seems like a small brood.\u00a0 Look at this brood for the duck mom below:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2018\/07\/ducks-1-Large.jpg\")
This loon mom is keeping a close watch on her chicks including feeding them:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2018\/07\/loon-mom-and-chicks-Large.jpg\")
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She’s very happy after delivering that snack:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2018\/07\/loon-preen_edited-1-Large.jpg\")
Not all of the hungry critters are on the water, this red squirrel made short work of an acorn:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2018\/07\/squirrel-Large.jpg\")
And this deer looked up from munching leaves along the roadside but didn’t seem at all fazed by the long lens:<\/p>\n