Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:10:58 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Montgomery Waterfowl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sunday afternoon (2/27/00) I made a run to Violette's Lock on the Potomac to see if the missing Tufted Duck had moved upstream. No such luck! But there were quite a few birds there: 1 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Blue-winged Teal 25 Redhead 8 Ring-necked Duck 500 Lesser Scaup 4 Bufflehead 2 Red-breasted Merganser 163 Coot 100 Ring-billed Gull 3 Jerks in a boat who deliberately kicked up the birds Later, at Black Hill Regional Park: 1 Pied-billed Grebe 600 Canada Geese 10 Mallard 2 Gadwall 3 Green-winged Teal 82 Canvasback 1900 Ring-necked Duck 3 Goldeneye 33 Bufflehead 14 Hooded Merganser 45 Ruddy Duck Lola and Ted Oberman The Obermans made up for the missing Tufted Duck. Paul O'Brien Rockville, MD pobrien776@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================