What a difference three days can make.
Last Thursday, myself and two other birders found at least 2,000 or 3,000
birds on the Potomac at Riverbend Park.
Today, myself and seven birder friends looked and may have found 500.
Still lots of Ring-necked and Coots, not many Bufflehead, a bunch of Common
Mergansers, 10 or more American Widgeon, that seemed not to be there on
Thursday, and a single male Canvasback for the first time this season.
Everyone seemed to have the same question: where did all the ducks go?
Wouldn't it be nice to know.
Donald Sweig
Falls Church, Virginia
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