Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:51:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: RN Grebes, WW Scoter 3/8/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A few friends from Carroll County (Tammy & Mark Schwaab, Bill Ellis) = joined me for a Red-necked Grebe excursion. Since Tammy needed it for a = life bird we tried for some close views. We saw at least 11 from the = Route 121 bridge at Little Seneca Lake, over 70 at Riley's Lock on the = Potomac (most near the far shore but some in the mouth of the creek), = and 3 at the Mouth of the Monocacy in Frederick County. Also at the = latter site were an immature White-winged Scoter, a drake Redhead, and a = drake Greater Scaup. By far the most numerous bird on the Potomac was = Ring-billed Gull. Later, Rob Hilton and I visited Georgetown Reservoir and Bladensburg = Marina with one Red-necked Grebe at each.Before I got back home I = stopped at Piney Run Park. No Red-necked Grebes yet but the lake is = mostly frozen and the heat shimmer was a problem this afternoon. = Highlight was 40 Canvasbacks. Checking the records, in 1994 the highest counts of Red-necked = Grebes were in late February (102 in DC on the 20th by Rob Hilton and = 174 in Anne Arundel County on the 28th by Hal Wierenga). This year's = birds seem to be a little later in arriving. In 1994 two birds remained = at Piney Run Park through May 27 and at Loch Raven in Baltimore County = one was seen by Steve Simon through the 31st. It will be interesting to = see how late they stay this year. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================