Hi all,
11:20-3:30
  Did a little birding on the C&O canal, Violette's Lock, and Seneca.  Best bird was a RED-NECKED GREBE that was
close to shore on the Potomac, about 80 yards past mile marker 23.  The grebe was actually swimming downriver,so it might be
closer to Reilly's Lock. The neck pattern is just starting to show on this bird.  Earlier, I checked out the Trumpeter Swans in company with the
Tundra Swans on the river. The Redheads and Scaup are still rafting in the same place. Two White winged Scoters were near the VA side.
 Here's the list:

Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Ring billed Gulls
Common Mergansers
Buffleheads
American Goldeneyes
RED NECKED GREBE 1
WHITE WINGED SCOTER 1
Greater Scaup
Redhead Ducks
Mallards
American Widgeons
Pintail
Ruddy Ducks
Hooded Grebe
Pied billed Grebe
Bald Eagle
Bluejays
Dark eyed Juncos
White thr Sparrows
Eastern BlueBirds
Black Vultures (1 pair mating)
Turkey Vulture
Northern Cardinal
Fish Crow
Common Crow
White brst Nuthatch
Pileated Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Red bellied Woodpecker
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee

D.Ford/Bethesda, Md.