Yesterday at Piney Run the following birds were on the lake:

Pied-billed Grebe  19
Great Blue Heron  3
Great Egret  1, record late date here
Cackling Goose  2
Canada Goose  460
Gadwall  3
Baldpate  14
Black Duck  55
Mallard  120
Pintail  1 female
Canvasback  3
Ring-necked Duck  1,250
Lesser Scaup  3
Black Scoter  1 female
Bufflehead  55
Goldeneye  1 female
Hooded Merganser  12
Ruddy Duck  380
Coot  92
Killdeer  19
Ring-billed Gull 28
Herring Gull  1, first of the season

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD