I saw my first Red-winged Blackbird of the spring this morning at home.

   At Piney Run Park the lake is still 90+ % frozen but there is plenty of
room for waterfowl. Many trails are still ice-covered and treacherous. Birds
today:

Canada Goose  1000
Black Duck  80
Mallard  110
Gadwall  6
Baldpate  2
Canvasback  4
Redhead  2
Ring-necked Duck  9
Bufflehead  4
Hooded Merganser  18
Common Merganser  30
Ruddy Duck  9
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Coot  64
Ring-billed Gull  1200
Herring Gull  7
Barred Owl  2, heard only, a pair calling from the Field Trail woods

-- 
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD