on 3/20/06 6:51 PM, Bob Ringler at  wrote:

> It's a pity no one from Washington County birds here. It is a great place for
> waterbirds.
>  On this first day of spring, appropriately Spring Beauty was abundantly in
> bloom.

I'm not from Washington County, but I am from the Washington County chapter
of MOS and I do bird there. Well, a little further upstream from milepost 70
to 73.

Here is a brief list of what I saw on the Potomac in that area of Washington
County on 3/21/06. I was driving on the WV side of the river, but the birds
were in Washington County, MD.

  
 Canada Goose  8   
 Mallard  13   
 Common Merganser  8
 Herring Gull  11  (Alas no GBBG)

Also saw a pair of Wood Duck, but they were in a WV waterway, very near but
not in the Potomac. Sorry to be late in reporting.

-- 
Elliot Kirschbaum
Shepherdstown, WV
kingfisher500 at adelphia dot net