The Gorge madness has begun. There's a sliver of the ocean that runs deep inland next to where I live in Canada. Some 40 - 50 pairs of merganser are taking foot-trailing flights across the water for about 30 metres at a time. Quite a sight. Oddly, they are accompanied by almost as many cormorants. Very eerie when they drop right to the waterline so just their necks are showing like dozens of snakes above the water.