With Debbie Terry I started the day at Fletcher's Boathouse, DC.  Highlights there were:

Wood Duck  at least 10 in the trees or on the canal
Double-crested Cormorant  250, mostly in the trees across the river
Bonaparte's Gull  5, flying upriver
Ring-billed Gull  3
Great Black-back  3
Caspian Tern  12, flying upriver
both kinglets
Gnatcatcher  2
Yellow-throated Warbler  2, one singing

At Violettes Lock:

Lesser Scaup  6
Bufflehead  20
Common Merganser  4
Red-breasted Merganser  9
Double-crested Cormorant  60
Bonaparte's Gull  85
Ring-billed Gull  3

At Riley's Lock:

Common Merganser  1
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  1

At Hughes Hollow:

Baldpate  7
Blue-winged Teal  13
Ring-necked Duck  1
Bufflehead  2
Horned Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  6

And in the evening I went to Liberty Lake to watch the cormorants coming to roost:

Wood Duck  1
Canvasback  2
Long-tailed Duck  1
Common Merganser  2
Red-breasted Merganser  2
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Gebe  4
Double-crested Cormorant  140, started roosting on the ground, exposed roots, or water but when the sun went down they moved into the trees.
Bonaparte's Gull  63
Ring-billed Gull  40

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg, Md


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