Kathy Calvert, Mike Welch, and I spent a very enjoyable day birding 
western Maryland Sunday focusing on waterfowl.  Despite windy conditions 
throughout the day and unexpectedly cold temps, we had a few highlights 
including LONG-TAILED DUCK and AMERICAN TREE SPARROW at Rocky Gap State 
Park, RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Old Legislative Road, and BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 
another TREE SPARROW, and WOODCOCK at the Pinto Wetland Area near Near 
McKenzie Tower Rd SW (thanks to Jim Green for providing directions for 
the Woodcock!). Every body of water we visited had some open water.  
Other waterfowl included

ALLEGANY

ROCKY GAP SP:
Red-breasted Merganser
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Wood Duck
Lesser Scaup
Greater Scaup
Double-crested Cormorant
Pied-Billed Grebe
Long-Tailed Duck

PINTO WETLAND
Green-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Black Duck
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal

PINTO POND
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Wood Duck (17)
Bufflehead
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead

There was not much at Mason Road Pond or Cumberland Terminus other than 
Hooded Mergansers and Ring-necked Ducks.

GARRETT

PINEY RESERVOIR
Redhead (12)
Red-breasted Merganser (18)
Common Merganser (surprisingly, RB Mergs were almost everywhere; this 
was the only Common of the day)
Hooded Merganser
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Horned Grebe

LITTLE MEADOWS LAKE
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Redhead
Horned Grebe
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Lesser Scaup

FINZEL SWAMP
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Red-breasted Merganser
Wood Duck

Good birding!
Jim Moore
Rockville, Maryland
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