I visited Piney Run Park this afternoon with Trisha Nyland and Jerry Placek. The lake was mostly free of ice except at the upper end near White Rock Road. The waterfowl were spread out and moving around, making accurate counting impossible. Birds seen:

Canada Goose  400
Tundra Swan  1 immature
Baldpate  5
Black Duck  6
Mallard  25
Canvasback  5
Redhead  1 male
Ring-necked Duck  3
Greater Scaup  1 male, rare here
Bufflehead  15
Goldeneye  1 female
Hooded Merganser  50
Common Merganser  90
Ruddy Duck  10
Great Blue Heron  2
Coot  100
Ring-billed Gull  100
Kingfisher  1

   Later at Liberty Lake from the end of Oakland Road; all the ducks were on the Baltimore county side:

Canada Goose  75
Black Duck  7
Mallard  50
Ring-necked Duck  1 male
Common Merganser  2
Ring-billed Gull  100
Kingfisher  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
--
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD