A nice bright colored male Pine Warbler was coming to one of the 
platform feeders at the visitor center, Black Hill Regional Park, 
Montgomery County, at about 11:30 a.m. today, 1/3/08.  Denise Gibbs 
at the center said that it had not previously been reported.

The center also had a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatches coming to a 
peanut feeder.  The feeders there are well stocked, very active and 
worth watching.

Numbers of waterfowl are still fairly low in Little Seneca 
Lake.  Highlights for me were a couple of dozen Canvasback and two 
drake Common Goldeneye by the Route 121 bridge.  American Coot and 
Bufflehead were pretty common, and Hooded Mergansers common here and 
there.  All 6 Common Mergansers I saw were hens. I did not see the 
Tundra Swans reported from the lake on January 1 by Elaine Hendricks.

Shallower parts of the lake, particularly in the Ten-mile Creek area, 
are frozen up already, but the bulk of the lake is still wide open.

Good Birding.

Mike Bowen
Bethesda

D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD  20817
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