Hi all,
   Sorry for the partial message of a bit ago.

   Today, 1/18, I did some BIGBYing along the C&O Canal in Montgomery
County. I started at Lock 10 around 12:40, and worked my way by bike to
Violette's Lock at 4 pm. I then doubled back to Swain's Lock. I missed the
previously reported Bonaparte's Gulls and Redheads, but otherwise did pretty
well. Highlights follow.

Lock 10:
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Hairy Woodpecker

Lock 14:
4 Bluebirds
1 Hairy Woodpecker

Marsden Area:
1 American Black Duck

Great Falls:
6 American Black Ducks
2 Coots

Swain's Lock
50 Ring-necked Ducks
6 Common Mergansers
5 Buffleheads
1 American Wigeon
4 Tundra swans
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Common Ravens

WSSC Station:
300 Ring-necked Ducks
5 Buffleheads
1 American Black Duck
1 Bald Eagle (adult)
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Winter Wren
3 Golden-crowned Kinglets
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Song Sparrow
1 Purple Finch (singing)

Between Mile 20 and 21:
50 Buffleheads
2 Lesser Scaup
1 Common Merganser
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Wild Turkey (on the way back)
2 Song Sparrows

Mile Marker 21:
1 Canvasback
1 Common Goldeneye
3 Buffleheads

Violette's Lock
2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Red-headed Woodpeckers

Mike Ostrowski
North Bethesda, Mont. Co.