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Owings(siskins), North Beach, Herrington Harbor(swans), Lake Artemesia

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Harry Lotis

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Mon, 5 Jan 2009 04:28:30 +0000

Saturday I drove south of the North Beach boardwalk and from the crooked Eye parking lot
I counted about 
- 500 greater and lesser scaup
-    4 common golden eye
- 50 bufflehead

Sunday I took my camera to North Beach and the scene changed completely.
 They were replaced by
- 250 canvasback
  
So I went to Herrington Harbor up the road a bit where I found 
south of the marina and south of Rose Haven
 - two very long strands of scaup aout 1000 each 
-  500 buffle head
-  37 swan ( no yellow ) at the very north end of the marina
 did not see any long tailed duck there today

It was still sunny so I drove to Lake Artemesia near Berwyn where there were
- 2000 Canadian geese
-    25 ring necked ducks near the fishing pier
-    20 coot in the back waters
 -   20 ruddy duck in the back waters

By the way, I started out the day with my first ever sighting of 
 - 2 pine siskins at my feeder in Owings

Nice sunny days in winter are meant for birding
Harry Lotis