Steve,

Jim Stasz and I stopped by the Burkittsville Pond late this morning and had 
the birds that you posted. In addition to the birds that you reported, there 
was a single Snow Goose, at least 2 Cackling Geese, and several Gadwall. 
After tanking on anything of interest at Lily Pons, thanks partly to a group 
of 4-wheelers riding the trails around the ponds and mostly due to our lack 
of exploration, we headed to the Little Seneca Resevoir where we easily 
found 1 of the 2 Red-throated Loons reported at the end of last week. 
Tridelphia was busy with lots of boaters of various types, thus the 
waterfowl was nearly non-existant. We had 4 Mallards, 4 Ruddt Ducks, Canada 
Geese, 1 Tundra Swan and a Common Loon. A flock of about a dozen Pipits were 
out on the exposed lake bed flats north of the water pipes off Greenbridge 
Road. Jim had the best bird of the day while doing a watch at Reno Monument 
west of Middletown off Old National Pike and while waiting for me to meet up 
with him. Since he found it, and I didn't see it, I won't spoil his thunder, 
I'll let him make the post himself.

Good Birding,

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Sanford" <>
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Frederick Co Birds Saturday


> At the Burkittsville pond on Route 17, we saw a variety of waterfowl
> as daylight faded away. The best was a Long-tailed Duck. Others were
> American Wigeon,
> American Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Ring-necked Duck,
> Scaup sp., Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Ruddy Duck, and of course
> lots of Canada Geese. Unfortunately, we could not locate the Redhead
> that Kevin saw earlier.
>
> Steve Sanford
> Randallstown, Baltimore County
> scartan^at^verizon^dot^net
>