Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 23:48:49 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Geoff Graff Subject: Tufted Duck relocated, in MD water Comments: cc: VA-BIRD@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I started at 9am at the Washington Sailing Marina looking for the male Tufted Duck. For 20 minutes there, nothing but nice several ducks species. After that, went on to the NPS area, next to the marina, nothing, only at least couple dozens ducks. Moving on to the Pepco Power Plant on the bike path behind the power plant, nothing again, but a quite few ducks out in the open. So I gave up and went on to Dyke Marsh for a while to check out what there, got at least 45 species including 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Red-winged Blackbirds, 1 Winter Wren. After that, I almost forgot about the huge rafts I saw while crossing the Wilson Mem. Bridge on the way to VA. So I went there at 12:45pm and park at west span shoulder on MD side before crossing the bridge and after 10 minutes scanning nearly thousands of ducks, I found the male TUFTED DUCK, but couple minutes later a Great Black-backed Gull flew low and scare one small flock of Lesser ScaupS along with the Tufted Duck and took off from the cove out into the open water and is hard to spotted in the distance with all that flurries. The total count ducks seen there at the MD water north of the bridge was 829 Lesser Scaup, 10 Greater Scaup, 1 male Tufted Duck, 20 Am. Black Duck, 33 Bufflehead, 40 Canvasback, 19 N. Ruddy along with 102 Ring-billed Gull, 36 Herring Gull, and 4 Great Black-backed Gull. I couldn't stay longer as I have to leave at 1pm to be back at work in Harford County by 2:30pm. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================