A long walk at Piney Run Park in the morning produced the following:
Canada Goose 30
Greylag Goose 2, one normal & one all white
Tundra Swan 150 on the lake
Black Duck 10
Mallard 20
Lesser Scaup 3 males
Ring-necked Duck 2, a pair
Bufflehead 25
Hooded Merganser 10
Common Merganser 2
Ruddy Duck 10
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Horned Grebe 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Coot 30
Ring-billed Gull 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 5
Carolina Chickadee 10
Titmouse 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Bluebird 1 heard
Hermit Thrush 2
Robin 1 heard
Towhee 2
Song Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 30
Junco 15
Cardinal 5
Goldfinch 4
In the evening at Liberty Lake:
Canada Goose 33
Wood Duck 4, two pairs
Mallard 4
Bufflehead 1 female
Common Merganser 13
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 2
DC Cormorant 11
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull 9
Phoebe 1
Pine Warbler 1 heard
I'm not sure when the cormorants returned. The earliest record for the county is March 16 but I have not checked the lake for a few weeks.
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Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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