Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:22:12 -0500 Reply-To: Robert Ringler Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Carroll Co. Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The 13th annual Carroll County winter bird count was held on = Saturday,=20 Jan. 22, 2000. the temperature was -2F at my house that morning, but we = had 13 observers to produce a tally of 84 species, only 3 below our = record high count. With all parties reporting here is the score: Pied-billed Grebe 21, Great Blue Heron 1, Black Vulture 20, Turkey = Vulture 74, Canada Goose 4252, Wood Duck, Gadwall 42, American Wigeon = 20, Black Duck 163, Mallard 1042, Shoveler 4, Pintail 6, Green-winged = Teal 12, Canvasback 8, Ring-necked Duck 26, Lesser Scaup 2, unidentified = scaup 4, Bufflehead 60, Hooded Merganser 194, Common Merganser 32, Ruddy = Duck 301, Harrier 2, Sharp-shinned Hawk 5, Cooper's Hawk 3, = Red-shouldered Hawk 13, Red-tailed Hawk 66, Kestrel 16, Peregrine 1, = Coot 252, Killdeer 6, Snipe 6, Ring-billed Gull 160, Herring Gull 1, = unidentified gulls 400, Feral Pigeon 265, Mourning Dove 363, Screech Owl = 3, Short-eared Owl 2, Kingfisher 7, Red-headed Woodpecker 4, Red-bellied = Woodpecker 65, Sapsucker 8, Downy Woodpecker 64, Hairy Woodpecker 13, = Flicker 39, Pileated Woodpecker 5, Phoebe 1, Blue Jay 186, American Crow = 846, Fish Crow 7, unidentified crows 1247, Horned Lark 322, Carolina = Chickadee 196, Tufted Titmouse 162, Red-breasted Nuthatch 5, = White-breasted Nuthatch 67, Brown Creeper 3, Carolina Wren 59, Winter = Wren 2, Golden-crowned Kinglet 3, Bluebird 117, Hermit Thrush 19, Robin = 111, Mockingbird 126, Starling 2910, Cedar Waxwing 75, Myrtle Warbler 9, = Towhee 11, Tree Sparrow 23, Field Sparrow 46, Savannah Sparrow 50, Fox = Sparrow 14, Song Sparrow 253, Swamp Sparrow 13, White-throated Sparrow = 954, Harris's Sparrow 1, White-crowned Sparrow 165, Junco 1158, Lapland = Longspur 1, Cardinal 420, Red-winged Blackbird 3, Common Grackle 68, = Cowbird 87, unidentified blackbirds 20, Purple Finch 1, House Finch 435, = Goldfinch 114, House Sparrow 298. Particularly notable were the high numbers of Hermit Thrushes, = Robins, Savannah Sparrows, and Fox Sparrows as well as the Harris's = Sparrow at the Harveys feeder. The Peregrine was also new for the = count. Notably low were Winter Wrens, Golden-crowned Kinglets, and Tree = Sparrows. Bob Ringler Eldersburg, Md ringler@qis.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ================================================================================================================================================