The lake at Piney Run Park has been drawn down for shoreline pier work. The only birds taking advantage of the large mudflat at the upper end of the lake were some Killdeer and a Rusty Blackbird.

Canada Goose  155 (also one white Greylag)
Wood Duck  3
Gadwall  2
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  1 male, my first of the spring
Green-winged Teal  16
Ring-necked Duck  1 female
Lesser Scaup  2 females
Unidentified sleeping female Aythya  duck  2
Bufflehead  6 females
Common Merganser  2 females
Ruddy Duck  5
Common Loon  2
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  5
DC Cormorant  17
Great Blue Heron  3
Osprey  1
Coot  14
Killdeer  4
Ring-billed Gull  2 immatures
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Rusty Blackbird  1, my first of the year

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD