Had a very nice walk along the C&O Canal Saturday morning 10:30-12:30 with virtually no one else there.  Very unusual for that stretch!  Sunny, breezy, and cool.

We headed west from the Great Falls Tavern, took the foot path along the River and then returned on the tow path.

Had nice views of one of the bald eagles sitting on the nest on Conn Island and at least 30 Great Blue Herons sitting on, collecting materials for, and building nests on the Island.

Other species seen:

lots of Canada Goose
2 American Black Duck
Mallard
>100 Ring-Necked Duck
4 Wood Duck
1 female Common Merganser
5 Bufflehead
1 Pied-Billed Grebe
1 Black-Crowned Night-Heron
12 Double-Crested Cormorant
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Crow
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
White-Throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-Winged Blackbird
Common Grackle

Jim Nelson
Bethesda, MD