Good to be birding again. Today there was another major flight of Canada Geese. I saw seven flocks totalling 450 birds going over this morning numbering 46, 52, 58, 87, 89, 34, and 84; all headed in northerly directions.

At Piney Run Park:

Tundra Swan  2, probably the ones that wintered here
Canada Goose  175
Black Duck  15
Mallard  35
Green-winged Teal  10
Canvasback  12
Ring-necked Duck  100
Lesser Scaup  55, tried to turn some into Greaters but none fit perfectly to suit me
Bufflehead  22
Hooded Merganser  12
Common Merganser  200
Ruddy Duck  41
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Coot  15
Ring-billed Gull  90
Sapsucker  1
BARN SWALLOW  1, only two days off my record early date here


This evening at Liberty Lake (BC = Baltimore Co. only):

Canada Goose  9
Mallard  5
Goldeneye  1 female (BC)
Hooded Merganser  13 (BC)
Common Merganser  11
Common Loon  1 in breeding plumage
Pied-billed Grebe  5 (BC)
Horned Grebe  6
Red-necked Grebe  1 (BC)
Coot  9 (BC)
Ring-billed Gull  100
Herring Gull  1
Barred Owl  1 heard (BC)
--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD