--UNS_gsauns2_2816448311 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Todd & Edna, Everyone has done a good job of describing the Black Hill/Ten Mile Creek location. The description of the Black Hill/Ten Mile Creek area is on page 88 of the book by Claudia Wilds. I have always driven North on 270 to the Exit for Route #121 (Clarksburg Road). Going West on 121 until you reach West Old Baltimore Road where you turn left to go to the park entrance and right to go to the Ten Mile Creek area. Unless the creek is low so you can jump rocks or jump across the creek, you must wade through the creek and a wet road to get to the path. It really is not a big deal. The bottom of the creek is smooth. As mentioned there are paths on the near side of the lake finger so you don't have to cross the stream. I just enjoy the far side better. The path I took is not very long--probably about a quarter of a mile. You get nice open views of the water and at the end there is a bench to sit on. I get a feeling of solitude since the area is wooded and houses can't be seen and I enjoy the ducks flying in and out against the backdrop of the wooded shore line. Using a scope, the views are usually much closer than the views of the ducks on the main lake. Another area of Black Hill Park that offers good views of ducks, is easier to reach but does not offer any feeling of solitude, is a path at the end of Spinning Wheel Drive which connects with Waters Landing Road. This path starts between houses but soon takes you into the back of Black Hill Park. The right split goes into the Park and pass the ruins of Waters Mill. The left path is hard top and is good for baby strollers, bikes, dogs and runners. The hard top path has houses on one side and the lake on the other. You can get good views of Hood Mergansers and Wood Ducks; and I have seen Green and Blue Winged teal here. Last fall, a very large flock of Ring-Necked Ducks was here (Probably the largest on the lake.). A Great Horned Owl has been seen sitting on a tree at dusk here and (probably) nesting Red Headed Woodpeckers were seen among the dead trees. I have seen Fox Sparrows and common woodland species along this path--probably attracted by the feeders by the houses. There are also some interesting spring wild flowers along this path. I have not extensively walked the paths within Black Hill Park. Any comments on land birding would be welcomed. Happy Birding, Dan Eberly --UNS_gsauns2_2816448311--