Date: 3/30/13 11:46 am
From: Dave Roberts <droberts50...>
Subject: [MDBirding] C&O Violettes - loon, palm warblers


Several new arrivals this morning between mile markers 20.5 and 24.5. A common loon in breeding plumage was diving near Rileys Lock. Two yellow palm warblers were with a small flock of yellow-rumped warblers above Rileys. A brown-headed cowbird was singing at Violettes Lock. Three great egrets passed through early headed upstream.

A large number of horned grebes remain on the Potomac. I counted 37, with about 10% now in full breeding plumage. A large flock of scaup and a smaller flock of ring-necked ducks remain downstream of Blockhouse Point.

Dave Roberts
Bethesda

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