[va-bird] Riverbend Pk.Ducks 12/29/05

From: Dendroica@xxxxxxx
To: va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:07:04 EST

A mid-afternoon walk along the Potomac from the Riverbend Visitors' Center 
south to the dam at the border of Great Falls NP, produced the following duck 
sightings:

475 Ringed-neck Ducks (95% male)

  16 Common Mergansers (2 m, 14 f)

  13 Lessor Scaup (7 m, 6 f)

  12 Bufflehead (8 m, 4f)

    9 Mallards (one floating belly up--possibly the victim of a hunter's 
bullet?)

    1 Ruddy Duck

The river was high with a fairly swift current.  An adult Bald Eagle was on 
its usual high perch across the river just north of the boat ramp.  

Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA

[va-bird] Riverbend Pk.Ducks 12/29/05

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