Merganser Ducks

Shenandoah River

These pictures are from February 13. I took them with my cell phone and could not tell what kind of ducks I was seeing until I cropped the pictures. They are "common mergansers." They don’t seem that common to me because most of the time when I see ducks around here, they are either mallards or domestic ducks.

The females have copper-brown heads. I saw these from the canoe launch at Seven Bends State Park. 

I searched my photo files for ducks to see if I had other mergansers, but mostly mallards came up. Also, the word Duck came up on a couple of signs which I don’t really understand. This first one was on the rear window of a car.

There was also this sign at a country club.