Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 18:39:14 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Michael Bowen Subject: Potomac Waterfowl Count - Montgomery County, MD Comments: To: va-bird@freelists.org, Voice of the Naturalist Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Here are the results of Yesterday's (12/7/02) count of waterfowl in Montgomery County at various sites, mostly along the Potomac as accessed from the C&O Canal. The results for Black Hill Regional Park probably duplicate in part the sightings of another group of people who birded the park. (My sightings cover only birds seen from the bridge on Rte. 121.) This count was coordinated by the Fairfax Audubon Society. 1. Little Falls CANADA GOOSE 40 COMMON MERGANSER 3 MALLARD 30 2. Carderock Recreation Area - Old Angler's Inn CANADA GOOSE 90 MALLARD 10 AM. BLACK DUCK 2 BUFFLEHEAD 4 3. Great Falls Park PIED-BILLED GREBE 1 TUNDRA SWAN 1 CANADA GOOSE 400 MALLARD 30 AM. BLACK DUCK 8 AM. WIGEON 3 GADWALL 2 RING-NECKED DUCK 400 REDHEAD 4 N. SHOVELER 3 HOODED MERGANSER 2 (Some of these birds were almost certainly also visible from Riverbend Park in Fairfax County, from which one group of birders has reported in to VA-Bird.) 4. Violette's Lock - Riley's Lock PIED-BILLED GREBE 4 CANADA GOOSE 20 BUFFLEHEAD 7 COMMON GOLDENEYE 2 (both hens) MALLARD 10 AM. BLACK DUCK 8 GADWALL 12 N. SHOVELER 6 AM. COOT 2 RUDDY DUCK 1 5. Black Hill Regional Park (Little Seneca Lake) CANVASBACK 6 RUDDY DUCK 200 MALLARD 12 RING-NECKED DUCK 50 GREEN-WINGED TEAL 4 AM. WIGEON 4 CANADA GOOSE 250 TUNDRA SWAN 2 BUFFLEHEAD 45 HOODED MERGANSER 5 AM. COOT 26 6. Seneca Creek State Park (Clopper Lake) CANADA GOOSE 500 MALLARD 20 GADWALL 1 AM. WIGEON 2 REDHEAD 1 male RING-NECKED DUCK 300 HOODED MERGANSER 6 AM. COOT 30 Smaller and shallower ponds in Montgomery County were mostly frozen over. I did not have time to visit bodies of water in the eastern part of the county (like the Mt. Zion Road pond) that may well still be open. Mike Bowen Bethesda D.H. Michael Bowen (Mike) 8609 Ewing Drive Bethesda MD 20817 Tel./Fax: (301) 530-5764 e-mail: dhmbowen@yahoo.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================