I visited Lake Parsippany four times this past week. Here are the numbers for Common Mergansers:

Tuesday, 3/8/2011:  260
Thursday, 3/10/2011: 500
Saturday, 3/12/2011: 160
Sunday, 3/13/2011: 12, that’s right, 12.

A classic case of here today and gone tomorrow.

Jonathan Klizas