Bill Hubick and I had several interesting birds at Tridelphia Reservoir late this afternoon. It was a different mix of ducks than the ones I saw this morning. 
The highlights were RED-THROATED LOON in Howard and SURF SCOTERS in Montgomery . I also had my FOS Common Goldeneyes and Common Mergansers. 






Location:     Triadelphia Reservoir--Brighton Dam (Howard County) 
Observation date:     11/11/09 

Canada Goose     20 
Common Goldeneye     2 
Common Merganser     7 
RED-THROATED LOON       1     Seen from the Greenbridge pipeline. It was with Common Loons across from the mouth of Pigtail. 
Common Loon     18 
Double-crested Cormorant     2 
Ring-billed Gull     25 


Location:     Triadelphia Reservoir--Greenbridge (Montgomery County) 
Observation date:     11/11/09 

Canada Goose     60 
American Black Duck     4 
SURF  SCOTER       2     Seen from the Greenbridge boat ramp, to the right of the dam, and with Buffleheads. 
Bufflehead     26 
Hooded Merganser     8 
Pied-billed Grebe     1 

Other ducks were flying in as it got dark but it was too dark to ID them. I plan to check it again in the morning. I wish we could have also gotten the Red-throated Loon in Montgomery for Bill and the Surf Scoters in Howard for me but maybe that would have been greedy. 







Joe Hanfman 

Columbia, MD