Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:08:16 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kurt Gaskill Subject: DC/Potomac Basin Area Waterfowl Count, 12/7/02 Comments: To: va-bird@freelists.org Comments: cc: acartwright@erols.com, JWagge3093@aol.com, kellymfitzpatrick@hotmail.com, Greg_Fleming@belvoir.army.mil, fairfaxaud@erols.com, edfas@starpower.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Waterfowl Birders, Six of us covered the Mason Neck area of Fairfax Co and also counted waterfowl along the Maryland Shoreline across from Mason Neck, mainly in Charles Co just north of Indian Head. Early morning fog was problematic. Ice choked marshes and bays kept waterfowl to the main portions of the Potomac, esp. along the Maryland shoreline (which was probably not adequately covered). Even with a caveat, the day went well with scaup taking top numbers - the final tally may vary. No scoters or Long-tailed Ducks were observed. Here are some preliminary totals of some species of interest we counted: Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 7 Canada Goose 672 Tundra Swan 587 Gadwall 6 Am. Wigeon 4 Am. Black Duck 879 Mallard 113 Green-winged Teal 11 Canvasback 61 Redhead 1 Greater Scaup 7 Lesser Scaup 3920 scaup sp. 1100+ Bufflehead 30 Hooded Merganser 7 Common Merganser 278 Red-breasted Merganser 3 Ruddy Duck 156 Bald Eagle 12 Am. Coot 12 Greater Yellowlegs 2 American Pipit 2 Eastern Towhee 11 (pretty much one group at the Colonel's house) Kurt Gaskill addendum: there was a Richardson's type Canada Goose at Dyke Marsh yesterday and Sherman Suter reports 2 Wood Ducks settling into Hunting Creek Bay this evening. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================