Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:43:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sue Ricciardi Subject: Fort Smallwood Park Comments: To: BIRDCHAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Spring Totals through 3/5/00 at Fort Smallwood Park Our season started with a 100+ bird day on 2/16 on a warm front and southwest winds. Today we surpassed 200 and our total for the season is already at 844. Movement of most species, especially Kestrels, has been early, with record early arrival dates for Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, and Red-shouldered Hawk. The first Osprey of the season arrived yesterday. So far, we've put in 42.8 hours on 12 days. The five best days and totals appear below. 2/16 BV 8 TV 74 NH 1 SS 3 CH 2 RS 1 RT 27 TOTAL 116 2/28 TV 73 SS 3 RS 5 RT 3 AK 1 TOTAL 85 3/3 BV 10 TV 56 RS 43 RT 7 AK 6 TOTAL 122 3/4 BV 27 TV 108 OS 1 BE 1 SS 6 RS 13 RT 12 AK 1 TOTAL 169 3/5 BV 18 TV 154 SS 13 CH 6 RS 15 RT 7 AK 9 TOTAL 222 TOTALS BV 82 TV 542 OS 1 BE 2 NH 1 SS 35 CH 8 RS 84 RT 66 AK 23 GRAND TOTAL 844 Fort Smallwood Park is located on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Patapsco River, about 11 miles south of Baltimore, MD. All numbers are official. Sue A. Ricciardi 1132 Ferber Avenue Arnold, Maryland 21012 susie@idsonline.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================