In a message dated 5/12/2005 9:10:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dtella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
About 6:45 this evening at Riverbend Park (Fairfax County) I saw a female
Common Merganser on the Potomac with (as best I could count) 17 ducklings.
In addition to Dorothy Tella's sighting above, while participating on the
May 14 C & O Canal count, we found a male and female Common Merganser with 3,
possibly 4, ducklings on the Potomac River a little north of Pennyfield
Lock.
Ralph Wall
Great Falls, VA