Highlights from a tour of Washington County, Sunday, 3/27:

Below Dam 3:

1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Common Mergansers
1 Eastern Phoebe

Dam 4:

12 Wood Ducks
1 Peregrine Falcon
2 Pileated Woodpeckers
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Brown Creeper

Williamsport:

1 Horned Grebe
Many Tree Swallows

Rt 56, 1 mile south of Ft Frederick

2 Gadwall
4 Ring-necked Ducks

Big Pool

1 Red-necked Grebe
9 Horned Grebes
2 Double-crested Cormorants
1 V of Tundra Swans overhead 15-20, kept on going
10 Wood Ducks
1 Blue-winged Teal
1 Greater Scaup
7 Lesser Scaup
4 Ring-necked Ducks
10 Bufflehead
1 Ruddy Duck
1-2 Osprey
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
3 American Coots
6 Eastern Phoebes
c. 10 Tree Swallows
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows
1 Brown Creeper

Little Pool:

4 Ring-necked Ducks
1 Red-breasted Merganser

2 flocks of Wild Turkey, about 10 on Bottom Rd north of Williamsport,
about 20 along Rt 56 south of Ft Frederick.

John Hubbell
Washington DC