[va-bird] White-Winged Scoters --Potomac River

Today, Jan 28, at about 2:00 PM, from the Dyke Marsh boardwalk, while busy 
sorting through Common and Hooded Mergansers in search of Red-breasted 
Mergansers, I saw two ducks I could only conclude were White-Winged Scoters 
flying south down the Potomac River.  They were all black except for white 
secondary wing patches, and were flying close to the water, about 250 to 300 
yards out (Maryland waters). The lighting was excellent, no heat waves, weak 
sunlight behind me,   I did not observe any white on their faces, but they 
may have been females, or late first winter birds, or maybe just too far away 
to detect.

Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA


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