Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:10:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: ducks on the Pax River Comments: To: MD-SMAS-GENERAL@LIST.AUDUBON.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Tyler, I got down to JPP around 10:30 and the Ruddy flock had increased to probably 8 or 9 thousand! The Canada Goose flock were the only birds fairly close in -- most of the rest were fairly distant and more to the north of the park. The huge rafts of Ruddys were impressive! I also saw the Buffleheads, scaup, Common Goldeneyes and Canvasbacks. There were also several dozen Oldsquaws and a few Common Loons. The water was like glass, no wind and the calls of the Oldsquaws and loons were a real treat. The sound carried easily to the shore. I also spotted 18 Tundra Swans (14 in a flyover) and a single Horned Grebe. I love it when the waterfowl returns to the river. ///////// Arlene Ripley | || Calvert County, MD | 0 || aripley@nestbox.com | || http://www.nestbox.com || At 09:25 AM 12/19/00, Tyler Bell wrote: >This morning I made a quick detour along the river at Patterson Park in >Calvert County to look at a large raft of ducks. There were conservatively >5000 Ruddy Ducks, several hundred Canada Geese, dozens of Buffleheads, >Greater and Lesser Scaup, and Common Goldeneyes. Also mixed in were a >handful of Canvasbacks. I couldn't dig out any Redheads, tho. Arlene, if >you're interested, they're easily seen from the King's Reach area. ///////// | || aripley@nestbox.com | 0 || http://www.nestbox.com | || || ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================