Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:11:26 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Poet Subject: Re: [[MDOSPREY] Longspur et al. in Caroline County] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Milton wrote: Judy Schaefer and I had an errand on the Eastern Shore today, and took the occasion to visit the Caroline County locations to which Marshall Iliff gave directions in his 1/18 post. Nothing at Clarks Lane at 3:00 or 5:30 PM, but we saw one male Lapland Longspur almost immediately on arriving at 2:00 at the recommended Sparks Road location, among numerous Horned Larks. The longspur was well into pre-breeding molt, with a bright chestnut nape and mostly black breast. Another birder saw one female Lapland. Sparks Road also had about a flock of about 30 Snow Buntings. We also discovered the Adkins Arboretum in Tuckahoe State Park, and a place in Denton with homemade apple pie. The Grasonville (Kent Narrows) pond had Mallards, Gads, Hooded Mergs, and Greater (by wing stripe length) Scaup. Mike Milton Washington, DC = = = = = = Mike I am tha= t other Birder that saw the female Longspur sat eveing .I saw no other long= spurs =2E Before we met I stopped on clarks lane and only saw 2 horned larks in= the plowed area. they where doing a bowing display towards each other .than b= oth birds flew into the air and fought for about 3 seconds. than parted ways = and both flew off aggression or defending its area I guess. As I live about 3= 0 min from that area I drove back there late Sun morning and found the flock o= f Horned Larks and the Male Longspur molting into its breeding plumage wit= h the mostly black breast . However it spent lot of time behind dirt clods comi= ng out some though. I saw none of the Snow Buntings they must be molting in= to breeding plumage also. Other weekend sightings where = = 3-4-00 Osprey Queenstown = = Ringed neck ducks starr = = Snow geese Starr No Rosses goose though = = 3-5-00 snow geese about 1000 Ridgely sewage pond = = Canvasback Cambridge = = Scaup lesser and greater Cambridge = male Redhead cambridge Surf= scoters Cambridge Old = Squaw or Longtailed duck cambridge molting into breeding plumage. pretty well= along = = Went to Oakly street to = look for the part Albino male Canvasback. No luck finding him but many others there. He was there on 2-26-00 = = Danny poet = = Queenstown, Md = = = = dannypoet@usa.net =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================