During my walk around the Sewells Orchard Ponds in Columbia this evening, I saw:

2 Ring-necked Ducks (male and female on lower pond)
1 Amerian Coot (on middle pond)
1 Pie-billed Grebe (middle pond)
3 Hooded Mergansers (2 gorgeous adult males and one female on the upper pond)

This is the first year that I have seen Mergansers and Coots at my neighborhood ponds! :-)

Jenny McClintock
Columbia, MD