I birded a few spots in southern Prince George's today and highlights included 2 female Common Goldeneye (at both Wharf Road and Mockley Point), 2 Redheads (1 male, 1 female), a male Greater Scaup and male Lesser Scaup (plus 2 female scaup sp.).  Birds at each stop included:

Depot Pond:  269 Laughing Gulls, 14 Ring-billed Gulls, 4 Herring Gulls, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, and 5 Double-crested Cormorants

Wharf Road:  1,400+ Ruddy Ducks, 40 Ring-necked Ducks, 1 female Canvasback, 2 Redheads, 1 Lesser Scaup, 1 Greater Scaup, 2 scaup sp., 33 Coots, 10 Pied-billed Grebes, 200+ Ring-billed Gulls, 4 Herring Gulls, 6 Great Egrets, 5 Great Blue Herons, 20 or so Mallards, a couple dozen Canada Geese, 1 Bufflehead, and a few Gadwall.

Mockley  Point (the boardwalk):  780 Gadwall, 39 Mallards, 24 American Wigeon, 2 Common Goldeneye, 1 Green-winged Teal, 2 Black Ducks, 1 female Hooded Merganser, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 88+ Ring-billed Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls, 2 Laughing Gulls, 1 Forster's Tern, and 3 Bonaparte's Gulls (floating on the water, close to shore).

Yesterday at Merkle, I had a truly bizarre White-crowned Sparrow:  the left half of the head was adult plumage (black stripes and white eyeline) and the right half of the head was juvenile plumage (brown stripes and buff eyeline).  I didn't catch the color of the center crown stripe.  No unusual geese however.  

Fred Shaffer

Crofton, Anne Arundel