Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:59:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Geoff Graff Subject: Conowingo Dam trip - 1/16/00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Baltimore Bird Club and Talbot Bird Club along with few people from Howard Co. had a trip today to Conowingo Dam, birds seen between 8am-2pm before I left after 2pm. 1 Horned Grebe - above dam 6 Double-crested Cormorant - on rocks behind wall 94 Great Blue Heron 1 Black-crowned Night Heron - imm. at south end of island 25 Canada Goose 50 Snow Goose - in flight headed south 5 Mallard - 1 drake above dam 20 American Black Duck 1 Common Goldeneye - female on rock near the bend of the trail 6 Bufflehead - above dam 59 Common Merganser - 30 above dam 16 Turkey Vulture 84 Black Vulture 3 Bald Eagle - 1 ad headed NE, 1 ad. at tree & 1st winter on rock 1 Peregrine Falcon - seen well up close 1 Bonaparte's Gull 6,879 Ring-billed Gull - in am, resting on rocks way before the siren 220 Herring Gull 1 Thayer's Gull - winter adult 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 ad., 1 1st winter, 2 2nd winter?? 105 Great Black-backed Gull 158 Rock Dove 2 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 11 American Crow 53 Fish Crow 1 Brown Creeper 1 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 Eastern Bluebird 1 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin - flyby 2 Northern Mockingbird 48 European Starling - flyby 2 Northern Cardinal 17 White-throated Sparrow 2 "Slate-colored" Junco 22 Red-winged Blackbird (with a flock of 3873 grackles in am) 5 Brown-headed Cowbird (same as above) 3,873 Common Grackle (about 75,000 or more seen with about 500 blackbirds and 20 cowbirds along riverbank and among trees on Cecil side resting for a while before headed N) 4 American Goldfinch 45 species total unless if there are more by other groups that are still there after 2pm Pete Webb, here is your field trip report. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ==========================================================================================================================================