All species of ducks have their own personalities.  Scoters act like the tough guys but in fact I think buffleheads and goldeneyes are braver.  Judging by how close they will let you get, Harlequins may be the bravest.  They’re also the coolest looking with their black-and-white clown patters.  For some reason they like moving water and unless the tide is flowing in or out they won’t stick around. Mergansers are the strangest looking of all the ducks that hang around Rendezvous and they may be the dumbest too, but it could be just because of the way the females look, with their helmet-heads. Like some ’50’s greaseball punk hanging outside the poolhall.  But the scoters are the real bullies and the most argumentative among themselves. You can just imagine the sniping conversations in the big rafts that form just outside the breakwater on the flood tide, where they swim and dive, swim and dive for hours.  They quack incessantly.  Mergansers just kind of find their own space and don’t socialize as much as the goldeneye, who stay together in smaller groups,  always busy.  Mergansers are the best at just sitting still.