From 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., I hit Hughes Hollow (HH), Seneca (S),
and Violette's Lock (VL), followed by a quick swing by Black Hill
Regional Park (BH). The Potomac was calm and glassy, making waterfowl
scoping a breeze. Numbers are approximate.
1. Pied-billed Grebe 2 S
2. Horned Grebe 10 S
3. Great Blue Heron 1 S
4. Tundra Swan about 40 over bridge at S
5. Canada Goose 25 HH, 8 S, 20 VL, 20 BH
6. Wood Duck 6 HH, 3 VL
7. Green-winged Teal 60 S, 12 VL
8. Blue-winged Teal one pair VL
9. Mallard 20 VL
-- MallardXBlack hybrid 1 VL
10. Northern Pintail 1 pair S
11. Gadwall 8 VL
12. American Wigeon 1 HH, 12 S, 1 BH
13. Redhead 1 drake amid lesser scaup flock VL
14. Ring-necked Duck 35 HH, 2 with lesser scaup VL, 6 BH
15. Lesser Scaup Flock of about 110 VL, 1 with ring-neckeds at HH
16. Bufflehead 18 BH
17. Hooded Merganser 7 HH, including three males performing courtship
competition for one female; 2 S; 8 BH
18. Common Merganser one female S; 10-12 BH
19. Red-breasted Merganser one male S; two females BH
20. Ruddy Duck 45 BH
21. Turkey Vulture 3 o. Rte. 270
22. Red-shouldered Hawk 2 HH, 1 Rte. 117
23. American Coot 5 VL
24. Killdeer 1 o. BH
25. Ring-billed Gull 35 S and VL
26. Great Black-backed Gull 1 (2nd winter), VL
27. Herring Gull 1-2 (2nd winter), VL
28. Rock Dove 3 o. Bethesda
29. Mourning Dove 6 Rte. 28
30. Belted Kingfisher 2 HH
31. Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 HQR, 2 S
32. Downy Woodpecker 2 HH
33. Pileated Woodpecker 1 S, 1 BH
34. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 HQR, 1 VL
35. Eastern Phoebe 1 HQR, 1 VL, 1 n. S, 1 BH
36. Tree Swallow 2 BH
37. Blue Jay 6 HQR, 2 S
38. Fish Crow 1 HH, 1 BH
39. American Crow 6 BH
40. Carolina Chickadee 4 HH, 5 S
41. Tufted Titmouse 3 HH, 4 HQR
42. White-breasted Nuthatch 1 HQR, 1 Bethesda
43. Brown Creeper 1 VL
44. Carolina Wren 3 HH, 6 HQR, 2 S
45. Winter Wren 2-3 singing HH, 1 HH, 1 VL
46. Eastern Bluebird 4 VL
47. American Robin 35 HH, 30 HQR, 15 S, roadside sev.
48. No. Mockingbird 5 roadside, 1 BH
49. European Starling 10 HH, 6 S, sev. elsewhere
50. Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 S
51. Northern Cardinal sev. almost everywhere
52. Fox Sparrow 1 HQR
53. White-throated Sparrow 6 HH, 18 HQR, 10 BH, sev. S
54. Song Sparrow 3 HH, 2 HQR, 4 BH
55. Dark-eyed Junco 6 HQR, 10 BH, 3 S
56. Red-winged Blackbird 30 HH, 6 S, 10 BH
57. Common Grackle 18 HH, 4 BH
58. House Finch 2 BH
59. Amercian Goldfinch 1 HQR
60. House Sparrow number Bethesda |