Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 13:57:48 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kurt Gaskill Subject: large scaup raft between Indian Head and Mason Neck Comments: To: va-bird@freelists.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DC Area Birders, As usual this time of year, there is a large scaup raft forming on the Potomac River between Indian Head, Prince Georges Co., and Mason Neck, Fairfax Co. Charlie Creighton and I spotted it as we were scouting out locations for next Saturday's DC/Potomac Waterfowl count. We estimated the raft closest to us (at Mason Neck) was about 5000 strong and the vast majority of birds were Lesser Scaup. Nearby at the mouth of the Great Marsh of Mason Neck were a nice assortment of divers and dabblers (several hundred) including 75 Tundra Swan. (Also, a couple of thousand Ruddies and scaup were on Belmont Bay.) Additional volunteers are desired, esp. for the Prince Georges and Montgomery Co. area. More information on the DC/Potomac Waterfowl count for this coming Saturday, Dec 7, 2002 can be found at the Fairfax Audubon Society ph: 703/256-6895 fax: 703/256-2060 www.fairfaxaudubon.org Wishing You Good Birds! Kurt Gaskill ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================