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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