Hi Folks,

I visited Thomas Point Park in Annapolis after work today, and then headed 
over to Whitehall Rd.  The highlight at Thomas Point was the drake REDHEAD 
swimming through the raft of nearly 2000 Canvasbacks along the waterfront 
north of the park.  Also notable were nine AMERICAN WIGEON swimming off the 
point, and a tenth one among the Canvasbacks.  Other finds are in the ebird 
report below, but I didn't do any scoping today, so the list pales in 
comparison with last weekend's list when, during the Annapolis CBC, Kevin 
Graff and I found such notables here as Wood Duck, Red-throated Loon, and 
Great Cormorant.

From Thomas Point I headed over to the turf farms along Whitehall Rd., where 
I found two Richardson's CACKLING GEESE among the herd of Canadas, numbering 
on the order of 1000.  These may well be the Cacklers found nearby by Hal 
Wierenga during the CBC last weekend.

Stan Arnold
Ferndale (AA Co.)



 Location:     Thomas Point Park
Observation date:     1/9/09
Number of species:     15

 Tundra Swan     10
American Wigeon     10
American Black Duck     2
Mallard     8
Canvasback     1800
Redhead     1
Greater Scaup     80
Surf Scoter     1
Long-tailed Duck     4
Bufflehead     65
Common Goldeneye     1
Red-breasted Merganser     1
Herring Gull     1
Song Sparrow     5
Northern Cardinal     3

 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)