I can confirm seeing Redheads at Riverbend earlier in the week. Aside from
many other water birds and a singing Loon, I also saw a relatively large
group of American Coots. It's been awesome birding at Riverbend the last
week!
--Bryan Peters
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Donald Sweig <skybirds.d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I drove over to Riverbend Park and scoped the river from the concrete
observation platform by the picnic area for about 45 minutes about 3
o'clock this afternoon. In addition to the usual copious Ring-necked
ducks, and a bounty of bobbing Bufflehead, I also found two elegant pair of
Common Mergansers, one Gadwall, and three, adult, Male REDHEAD DUCKS,
swimming with the Ring-necked ducks on the far side of the river, by the
Maryland shore. Also swimming with the three, male, Redhead ducks were
five or six female Redhead. Upstream, just a little bit, was a single
adult, male Canvasback.
These are the first Redhead or Canvasback that I have seen, or
heard reported, from Riverbend since last winter. I was not able to
relocate the three, female Common Goldeneye that I and my two Maryland
birding friends found there last weekend.
It's so nice to see more, and a bigger variety of, ducks coming into
that part of the Potomac. Hope they stay for the CBC in the morning.
Donald Sweig
Falls Church, Virginia
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