Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:04:39 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Louis Nielsen Subject: Hashawha springing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Visited Hashawha from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and found the following birds of some interest among 35 species. 1 Great-blue Heron; returned after a two month vacation. 10 Wood Ducks 4 Hooded Merganser (overnighters) 1 Barred Owl calling at 9 a.m. 5 species of Woodpecker including one each of Pileated and Yellow-bellied Sap. 2 Eastern Phoebe 6 Eastern Bluebirds: the winter flock has disbursed and they are paired, hanging around nest boxes. 5 Tree Swallows: competing with the bluebirds. 1 Fox Sparrow (down from a dozen just 5 days ago) 5 Dark-eyed Juncos (numbers down dramatically) 2 American Tree Sparrows 1 Field Sparrow 26 Song Sparrows 3 female Red-wings. The first femmes to arrive. 40+ males to greet them. 1 Mink Lou Nielsen clodvig II@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================