Wow? I'd say Holy ... cow ...!!!

Be sure to scan the flock for anything "different" ... like Tufted 
Duck ... from a distance males will look like a scaup with an all 
dark back ...

Or, while we're wishing ... maybe a Common Pochard (!) ... males will 
look like a slightly smaller Canvassback but with a bill more similar 
to a Redhead's ...

Phil


At 14:15 03/24/2007, Sean McCandless wrote:
>I am at Perryville Town Park right now and Ducks are peppered all over the
>flats, from the mouth of the North East River all the way down toward Turkey
>Point then split in to a c and heading over the the Islands on the Aberdeen
>Proving Ground side then up toward Havre de Grace. I am estimating about 20
>to 30 Thousand Ducks! I started counting one hundered and then out to a
>thousand and started estimating what a thousand birds looked like. I have
>never seen so many birds at once in my life other than blackbird flocks. Most
>of them are mixed Scaup, but I see Ruddys, Golden eye, Canvasbacks, Red
>Heads, Bufflehead, Ring necked, Coots, Red breasted Mergs, Common Mergs,
>Hooded Mergs.
>I would say the best viewing would be from Perryville, becouse if you are on
>the North East River side you wont see all of them and the same thing goes
>from Havre de Grace.
>Wow.

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