Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:03 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dave Perry Subject: Washington County Waferfowl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was up in Washington Co. today and checked out Big Pool along with a few other areas in the county to look for waterfowl, etc.. Results follow: The Lake at Indian Springs WMA. No waterfowl, actually, the lake was still 1/2 frozen. The unfrozen portions were very busy with fisherman. Big Pool: Nice variety and numbers here. Apparently, just recently unfrozen. I walked the entire length and back with the following results: Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Red-necked Grebe - 2 Canada Geese - many Wood Ducks - 25 Green-winged Teal - 2 Am. Black Ducks - 2 Mallards - 14 Gadwall - 2 Am. Wigeon - 8 Redheads- 6 Ring-necked Ducks - about 60 Lesser Scaup - 6 Common Goldeneye - 1 female Bufflehead - 12 Common Merg. - 1 Am. Coot - 6 Also, there were 2 Ring-billed Gulls, 1 Great Blue Heron, 1 Am. Woodcock (flushed from woods), 6 woodpecker species (all but Redheaded) amongst other winter/early spring residents. Other stops in the county included Dam #4 - 6 Red-necked Grebes; Dam #5 - 4 Red-necked Grebes, 2 Ring-necked Ducks, 9 Canada Geese, 1 Lesser Scaup and a Kingfisher; Pinesburg Pond had 2 Green-winged Teal; Cushway Basin in Williamsport was down to only 2 Red-necked Grebes and 1 Am. Coot along with the ever present Mallards and Canada Geese; Lock # 34 had 3 Common Mergs. and Dargan's Boat Ramp area had 2 more Red-necked Grebes, 4 Wood Ducks, another Common Merg. and a pair of Kingfishers. Dave Perry Crofton, MD deperry38@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================