This morning I visited the New Windsor wetlands. Though it was still
foggy I could make out some ponds on the big pond:

Canada Goose  16
Tundra Swan  17, unusual on this little pond
Wood Duck  2
Baldpate  1
Black Duck  1
Mallard  25
Pintail  13
Great Blue Heron  1
Killdeer  4 flying over, my first migrants of the spring
Snipe  1, also a first for the spring & my earliest ever
Ring-billed Gull  24 adults, migrants dropping out of the fog to graze on
the ball field
White-crowned Sparrow  6, mostly immatures with one singing
Meadowlark  2, perched in a tree at the edge of the ball field

Later in the morning I visited Piney Run Park but only on the north shore so
I could not see all the birds present on the lake. The fog had cleared but
the wind had picked up significantly.

Canada Goose  350, about 175 on the lake plus a single flock of 175
highflyers heading NW
Tundra Swan  36 flew over with a few of them dropping in
Redhead  44, numbers down a little from last week
Bufflehead  2
Hooded Merganser  4
Common Merganser  55
Ruddy Duck  4
Horned Grebe  1
Ring-billed Gull  70

-- 
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

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