The Potomac Valley Audubon Society sponsored a waterfowl hop at various locations in Jefferson county . We had a very good day, with 10 duck species, 10 Horned Grebes and a Common Loon, in addition to other birds. We had 44 species in all. We saw Redheads at the Old Country Club Road ponds and at Shannondale Lake, which also had the loon. We stopped at a Great Blue Heron roost just before the power station on the Shenandoah River and counted 9 nests. And we had an immature Bald Eagle on Rissler road. As we pulled into the Martins Supermarket Parking lot at the end of the trip, a Coopers Hawk sat on the telephone wire where we had very good looks at him. The topping for my trip was on the way home driving over the Potomac River bridge at Shepherdstown, a Common Raven was circling.

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