A first winter RED-NECKED GREBE was present on the lake at Piney Run Park this afternoon around 3 pm.  (large brownish gray grebe, long and thick dirty orange-yellow bill which had brighter color at its base;  dark crown and a pale ear patch;  long thick neck - pale throat and breast, darker mid neck; back of neck dark; thrusted head and neck forward as it swam.  I didn't see it fly).  

Also on the lake:
Canada Goose    300
American Wigeon    4
Mallard   14
Ring-necked Duck    170
Bufflehead    12
Hooded Merganser    69
Ruddy Duck    11
Pied-billed Grebe    6
American Coot    4
Ring-billed Gull    80

The SANDHILL CRANE was busy harrassing the Canada geese at Shiloh and Panther Roads in Hampstead at noon today.

John Dennehy
Baltimore