FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Redheads and Tundra Swans at Riverside Park 02/04

["Steve Williams" <stephen.l.williams@xxxxxxx>]

Early this morning, before full light, I noticed a small group of tundra
swans under the stone bridge at Riverside Park (which I can see from the
back of my house.)  With them were a couple of buffleheads, a few common
mergansers and a pair of mystery ducks.  The mystery ducks appeared to be
female diving ducks and the heads were too round for lesser scaup but I
couldn't make out any other details or colors in the poor light.
 

After breakfast and a couple of errands, I checked my e-mail and found Val
Kitchen's report of redheads and tundra swans at Riverside Park yesterday.
Could the mystery ducks be redheads?  They could.  Thanks, Val.  A pretty
good yard bird.

 

In the Potomac at Riverside Park (in the water and on the ice):

 

Bald eagles       4 adults

 

Redheads          6 (4 male)

Tundra Swans    8 (6 adult)

Mergansers       500-600  mostly common, some red-breasted

Buffleheads       6

 

 

 

Great black-backed gulls            70+

Some herring and ring-billed gulls

American crows                         15                     

 

Except for the mergansers, all were close to the shoreline

 

 

 

 

 

 



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