Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:14:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Andy Rabin Subject: Re: C&O Canal 2-26-00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I too was at Violette's Lock this morning (and walked north to Seneca). We saw most of what Chris saw plus a new county bird for me- Northern Shoveler. There were about 10, including both males and females. Some Redheads were there also, but they were too far out and it was too overcast to get good looks at their red heads. Andy Rabin Gaithersburg, MD andyrab@wam.umd.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Barnard To: Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 7:18 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] C&O Canal 2-26-00 > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================