Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:10:44 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Matt Hafner Subject: Western MD weekend MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jim Stasz, Marshall Iliff, Kevin Fehskens, and I took a trip out to Weste= rn MD this weekend. The trip was highlighted by fair numbers of early migra= nts. Jim and Marshall can help with the locations since I am very unfamiliar = with the area. Friday afternoon: Kershner's pond-Frederick County 1 Tundra Swan 1 Common Goldeneye 1 White-crowned Sparrow (singing) 1 Solitary Sandpiper Saturday: all locales in Garrett 12 Double-crested Cormorants - Broadford Lake 3 Black Vultures - Pleasant Valley area 2 Blue-winged Teal all 3 Mergansers 1 Merlin migrating near Pleasant Valley 12 Wild Turkeys 14 Common Snipe 4 American Woodcocks displaying along Aaron Run Rd. Bonaparte's Gull - 7 at Meadow Lake, 4 at Jennings Randolph Lake 12 Ring-billed Gull - Piney Reservoir 5 Short-eared Owls - Aaron Run Rd. Eastern Phoebes - everywhere all weekend 2 Common Ravens - Aaron Run Rd. 3-4 Singing Brown Creepers 2 Carolina Wrens 1 Mockingbird - Aaron Run Rd 1 Tree Sparrow 3 Chipping Sparrows 1 Vesper Sparrow 1 Rusty Blackbird - Finzel Swamp 8 Evening Grosbeaks - feeder in New Germany Sunday: 3 Common Loons - Breeding plumage Rocky Gap 1 Black Vulture - Cumberland both Scaup - Rocky Gap 1 Ruffed Grouse - Green Ridge 5+ Common Ravens 1 Brown Creeper singing - Green Ridge 15 Pine Warblers - Green Ridge 5+ Chipping Sparrows - Green Ridge 1 Rough-winged Swallow - Washington County On Friday there I had my first Rough-winged Swallow in on Pennington Rd. Harford County Matt Hafner Bel Air, MD ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================