Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:18:32 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Barnard Subject: C&O Canal 2-26-00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We went out for a walk in the cold and fog between Pennyfield and Violette's Locks today. The birds were very active. Notable sightings included: Pileated - 4! Downy - 6 Hairy - 4 Flicker - 3 Red Bellied - 4 Winter Wren - 2, singing Carolina Wren - 4 Bluebird - 3, calling Field Sparrow - 1 Fox Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 6 White Throated Sparrow - 4 Tundra Swans - 75 (at Violette's Lock) Lesser Scaup - 50 (there may have been greater as well, they were too far out in the river to tell with binoculars) Coots - 50 American Merganser - 1 Yellow Rumped Warbler - 20 There were plenty of titmice, chickadees, cardinals, crows, etc. Chris Barnard Rockville, MD cbarnard52@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================