Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:40:19 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Poet Subject: caroline co Longspurs and Snow Buntings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I Went to sparks Rd At About 12;30 this afternoon looking for the longsp= urs and buntings no luck took other back rds in the area saw tons of white throated sparrows and juncos .watched a white throat pluck a holly berry = from a holly tree and fly of to eat its prize. also came across Les Rosland an= d his wife birding the area. they did not have any luck finding them as he stat= ed in his post. At about 2:30 I went back towards sparks rd by way of stevenso= n rd when I got to the corner of Stevenson and sparks rd there was a small sp= arrow in the rd it flew to the edge of the road near the plowed snow. I was abl= e to watch the sparrow looking for food in a small patch of grass showing thro= ugh the snow. It was a Savannah sparrow a very nice look also able to take a= photo of it. I turned on sparks and became aware of about a dozen birds i= n the rd they were Snow Buntings at the same time a car from the opposite direc= tion came up the buntings flushed. But in the field on both sides of the rd wh= ere about 100 horned larks so i started scanning the flock and found 2 Laplan= d longspurs. I watched for a little while. than went to Ridgely and out to Crouses mill rd the dirt section that heads towards 480 and found 2 adul= t and 1 imm. White Crowned sparrows. Sorry Les i did not find them when you whe= re in the area. = = = = Danny Po= et = Queenstown,MD= = dannypoet@usa.net ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe send a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ==========================================================================================================================================