In the afternoon Stan Arnold, Marty Miller, and I made a quick stop at Piney Run Park but did not see the White-winged Scoter or Moorhen. Many waterfowl seem to have departed. I did not have enough time to count everything so this is an incomplete list of the birds:
Black Duck  2
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser  1 female
Red-breasted Merganser  9 females
Ruddy Duck  19
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe  4
RED-NECKED GREBE  1
DC Cormorant
Osprey  1
BROAD-WINGED HAWK  3 soaring in the distance
Bonaparte's Gull  39
Ring-billed Gull  2
Caspian Tern  1
CHIMNEY SWIFT  1 mixed in the swallows, my first of the year

   At Liberty Lake in the evening with Bill Ellis and Kevin Graff:
Canada Goose  11
Wood Duck  4
Mallard  2
Common Merganser  2, a pair, Baltimore Co. only
Red-breasted Merganser  6 females
RED-THROATED LOON  1, non-breeding plumage
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  7
Horned Grebe  4
RED-NECKED GREBE  3
DC Cormorant  194, numbers down slightly
Osprey  1, Baltimore Co. only
Bald Eagle  1 immature
Bonaparte's Gull  15
Yellow Palm Warbler  3, Carroll Co. only

Kevin saw additional birds earlier.

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Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD