About 30 Pine Siskins flying around my neighborhood this morning, 7 at my feeders.
Later I got a ride to Piney Run Park with Debbie Terry to look at waterfowl and we saw:
Canada Goose 20
Tundra Swan 4
Gadwall 8
Baldpate 2, a pair
Black Duck 14
Mallard 12
Green-winged Teal 4, two pairs
Ring-necked Duck 21
Lesser Scaup 1 female
Bufflehead 12
Hooded Merganser 7
Common Merganser 200
Ruddy Duck 8
RED-NECKED GREBE 3
Great Blue Heron 2
Coot 7
Ring-billed Gull 75
Herring Gull 1
Kingfisher 1 female
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL about 22 flew into spruces at the boat trailer parking lot, posed briefly, then flew off
Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD
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