Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:56:39 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Hoffman, Mark" Subject: "Rare birds of MD" Slide Show MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MD Birders - I thought some list members might find this of interest, particularly tho= se MD rarity aficionados. I'll be giving my "Rare Birds of Maryland" (really rare to uncommon birds of Maryland) slide show to the Howard County Bird Club next Thursday, February 10th, at 8 p.m. The meeting is at the Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia on Hesperus Drive. The school is located off Route 108; go south on Eliots Oak Rd. (just west of Centennia= l Lane), then left on Hesperus Dr. The school will then be on the left. The meeting is in the cafeteria. To wet your appetite, here's the species that will be covered (all photographed by myself in MD) - a few additions since last time (and I ma= y need to weed a few out in the interest of time): Pacific Loon Red-necked Grebe Western Grebe Northern Fulmar Anhinga White Ibis Wood Stork Greater White-fronted Goose Ross' Goose Tufted Duck Common Eider Harlequin Duck Barrow's Goldeneye Gryfalcon Sandhill Crane American Golden Plover Wilson's Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Baird's Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Great Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Black-headed Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Kelp Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Gull-billed Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Bridled Tern Dovekie Thick-billed Murre Northern Saw-whet Owl Selasphorus hummingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Gray Kingbird Fork-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Philadelphia Vireo Rock Wren Sedge Wren Townsend's Solitaire Bohemian Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler Clay-colored Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Le Conte's Sparrow Harris's Sparrow Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur Painted Bunting Dickcissel Brewer's Blackbird White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Regards, Mark Hoffman MD DNR Mhoffman@dnr.state.md.us ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================