Inspired by Dave Powell's post, I headed for North Beach this morning, where construction appears to have frightened off the shovellers.  However, I enjoyed the grebes off shore, mostly horned grebes in breeding plumage.  However, in one group off the pier there were two distinctly smaller with just a few golden feathers, unlike their fellows, with yellow "horns".  I think they were eared grebes, and I hope someone else will check them out.
   
  Green-winged teals were feeding in the marsh, but my "snipe count" was way low:  only one.
   
  A laughing gull flew overhead, my first of the year.
   
  sue hamilton, calvert county

 
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