Yesterday afternoon Dave Harvey reported a White-winged Scoter at Piney Run Park and I went out there after supper and stayed until sunset seeing the following birds:
Canada Goose  12
Wood Duck  4
Black Duck  6
Mallard  25
Blue-winged Teal  1
Green-winged Teal  14
Ring-necked Duck  1 female
Lesser Scaup  13
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER  1 male, fourth county record
Bufflehead  6
Hooded Merganser  6 females
Common Merganser  4 females
Red-breasted Merganser  11 females
Ruddy Duck  11
Common Loon  7 in breeding plumage
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Horned Grebe  3
DC Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Coot  11
Killdeer  1
PECTORAL SANDPIPER  1
Bonaparte's Gull  8
Ring-billed Gull  4
CASPIAN TERN  22, before this year the high count was three
Kingfisher  1
TREE SWALLOW  225
Rough-winged Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  2
Brown Thrasher  1 singing, my first of the year

--
Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD