Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:02:36 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: A Ducky Day on the Eastern Shore Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Well, not really ... nice weather, anyway ... I "ducked" out of the Easton, MD MOS Board meeting a little early to do some Central Eastern Shore (MD) county listing ... focusing on waterfowl. Results (not counting Canada Geese and Mallards) ... Easton, MD Water Treatment Plant - Talbot Green-winged Teal 6 Northern Shoveler 5 American Wigeon 13 (they're easy, Steve!) Northern Harrier 1 Laughing Gull about 200 in with the 2,000 usual gulls at the landfill Rt 313 and the Choptank River - on the Caroline side Green-winged Teal 14 Choptank Marshes (on Rt 313) - Caroline Green-winged Teal 10 Laughing Gulls 10 Hog Island Road (Choptank River) - Caroline Mute Swan 2 (in both Caroline and Talbot) Red-breasted Merg 1 on the Talbot side Wright's Wharf Road (Choptank River) - Caroline (nothing!) Choptank, MD (town of) - Choptank RIver - Caroline American Coot 2 in Caroline Mute Swan 2 in Talbot Double Crested Cormorant 3 in Caroline Hurlock, MD Sewage Treatment Plant - Dorchester Snow Geese ~2000 (did not check for Ross's) Rudy Duck 100 Lesser Scaup 8 Green-winged Teal 3 Laughing Gull 2 Northern Shoveler 6 Tundra Swan 1 Federalsburg, MD ponds (two locations) - Caroline American Coot 3 Wood Duck 3 Ringed-Neck Duck 1 Smithville, MD Smithville Community Lake - Caroline Pied-bill Grebe 2 Denton, MD Denton Water Treatment Plant - Caroline Ring-necked Duck 27 Lesser Scaup 3 Rudy Duck 1 Phil ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================