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[Marycarrollpotte@xxxxxx]

A short walk in Fort Hunt Park (south of Alexandria) yielded little (a ruby 
crowned kinglet, some robins which are certainly ubiquitous, a fish crow, some 
jays, a white-breasted nuthatch), but on the way back home I stopped by the 
Potomac.
 I had noticed out of the corner of my eye what looked like mounds of snow 
floating in the river. A handy pull-in allowed me to park.  There floating 
among 
mallards, scaups, canvasbacks and ring-necked ducks were more than a dozen 
swans.  I think they were tundra swans.  The adults had jet black bills and 
they 
were holding their necks straight up from the breast.  I saw no yellow on the 
bills, however. One immature's bill had a slight dusty red/orange cast to it. 
 

Mary-Carroll Potter


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