Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:09:56 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Geoff Graff Subject: Horsehead Wetlands Center report MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is Wildfowl Trust of North America at Horsehead Wetlands Center report for Feb. 6, 2000. Birds seen: 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Snow Goose 923 Canada Goose 22 Mute Swan 79 Tundra Swan 58 Mallard 8 American Black Duck 9 Canvasback 1 Redhead 1 Greater Scaup 115 Lesser Scaup 288 Bufflehead 3 Common Goldeneye 18 Northern Ruddy 1 Black Vulture 7 Turkey Vulture 1 Northern Harrier 1 Red-tailed Hawk 16 Ring-billed Gull 8 Herring Gull 3 Great black-backed Gull 10 Rock Dove 6 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 7 Fish Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown-headed Nuthatch (reported once every 3 days) 4 Carolina Wren 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird (in private area) 8 Northern Mockingbird 205 European Starling 400 Yellow-rumped Warbler 8 Field Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 33 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow (in private area) 393 "Slate-colored" Junco 10 Northern Cardinal 209 Red-winged Blackbird 152 Common Grackle 24 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 American Goldfinch 55 species counted in an hour and 45 minutes. Impressive numbers of junco and yellow-rumps scattered all over the scrub on unpaved main road. P.S. Sorry for a late report, I have classes at night. Also, anybody is welcome to join me on Sun Feb 27th to see any birds at Horsehead, I will be working on a 11 or 12 hours shift that day from 6am-5pm or 6am-6pm. Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================