I just made a visit to the project yesterday. It's been 2 weeks since the last visit; the Hooded Merganser encounter. There was one male and one female paddling about all day. I could hear the somewhat unique frog-like croaking sound used during the mating rituals (it was probably a bullfrog with a HM call, pulling a slow one on me )
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bz mentioned that he gets them; no biggie. I'm gonna let it play out.