Visited blue mash this morning. Highlight was a northern pintail (overdue county bird, #200) on the landfill pond. Also seemed like fox sparrows were out in force, and I managed to sneak up close to a few tree sparrows for some good pics. ebird list below. I then headed over to riley's lock on the potomac. Ran into Jim Moore and we both shared a view of the continuing red-necked grebe. 


Location:     Blue Mash Nature Trail 
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=39.1939588,-77.1060175&ll=39.1939588,-77.1060175
Observation date:     2/26/11
Number of species:     36

Canada Goose     25
Wood Duck     3     flew when they saw me
Gadwall     1
American Black Duck     20
Mallard     4
Northern Pintail     1    
Green-winged Teal     4
Ring-necked Duck     125     split between two ponds
Bufflehead     1
Hooded Merganser     15
Turkey Vulture     4
Northern Harrier     1     over landfill
Red-shouldered Hawk     1   heard
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Killdeer     1    
Ring-billed Gull     2
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     10
Blue Jay     8
American Crow     6
Carolina Chickadee     2
Black-capped Chickadee     1     where trail turns left near pond closer to zion rd
Eastern Bluebird     11     
American Robin     20
Northern Mockingbird     5
European Starling     2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     1
American Tree Sparrow     5      decent photos
Field Sparrow     2
Fox Sparrow     10      some were singing
Song Sparrow     8
Swamp Sparrow     1     near wooded trail 
White-throated Sparrow     15
Dark-eyed Junco     25
Northern Cardinal     6
Red-winged Blackbird     4

Jared Fisher
North Bethesda, MD

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