Hi all,
 Started off the morning while warming up the car, a Cooper's Hawk swooped in and caught a Starling right in the front yard. Got pictures of the mantling hawk.
  Decided to bird a little at Black Hill Reg. Park (Clarksburg) and had some good sightings.  A most exciting  hunt by a Bald Eagle hunting a small open section of water and diving on a group of 20 Pied billed Grebes.(East side of 121 bridge) The eagle got one, sat on the ice and ate it. Several crows got the scraps.  Another Bald Eagle soared in after chasing the grebes, and perched nearby on the ice.

10:45-2:15
Ten-mile Creek(west side of 121 were waterfowl were concentrated)
Tundra Swan
Canada Geese 100+ (due to bitter wind,and distance, it was tough to pick out cackling) more geese gathered by visitor cntr boat dock-
Black Ducks
Mallards
Pied billed Grebes
Coots
Bufflehead
Hooded Mergansers
Common Mergansers 5 (flybys)
Canvasback (spotted by Andy Martin)
Domestic Geese 5 ( by visitors center)
Red shouldered Hawk 1
Red tailed Hawk 1
Bonapartes' Gull 3 (spotted by Andy Martin)
Ring billed Gull 1
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagles 2
Common Crows 20
Fish Crow 1
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrows
PINE SISKINS 3-4 (at visitors center)
Brown Creeper 1
White brst Nuthatch
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Chickadee
White throated Sparrows
American Goldfinches 6+

D.Ford/Bethesda, Md.