Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:36:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: GEORGE JETT Subject: SMAS Fieldtrip List Comments: To: voice@capaccess.org Comments: cc: JLStasz@aol.com, miliff@aol.com, gbrewer@mail.frostburg.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Voice/MDOsprey Saturday, 3/25 Gwen Brewer and I did some county listing in Charles Co. Highlights from the 60+ species list follows. Common Loon - Cobb Island (10) Horned Grebe - Cobb Island (4) Pied-billed Grebe - Bumpy Oak Rd. wetlands Great Blue Heron - Cobb Island Blue-winged Teal - Breeze Point Sewage Treatment Plant (3) Gadwall - Bumpy Oak Rd. wetlands (6) American Wigeon - Allen's Fresh (male) Ring-necked Duck - Breeze Point Sewage Treatment Plant (2) Greater Scaup - Morgantown (female) Lesser Scaup - many locations Bufflehead - many locations Red-breasted Mergansers - Cobb Island (2) Ruddy Duck - Breeze Point Sewage Treatment Plant ~25 Black Vulture - Cobb Neck (3) Turkey Vulture - many locations Osprey - everywhere Bald Eagle - Allen's Fresh (5), Cobb Neck(2), Bumpy Oak wetlands (1) Northern Harrier- Allen's Fresh Peregrin Falcon - Gvt. Johnson Bridge, Calvert Co. nesting female through the scope - cool. American Coot - Cobb Island (75) Greater Yellowlegs - Allen's Fresh (2) Lesser Yellowlegs - Allen's Fresh (1) Common Snipe -Breeze Point Sewage Treatment Plant (1) Bonaparte's Gull - Cobb Island (1) Forster's Tern - Morgantown (2) Red-headed Woodpecker - Bumpy Oak Rd. wetlands (2) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Waldorf residence (male) Hairy Woodpecker - Waldorf residence (2) Purple Martins - Cobb Island (4) Barn Swallow - Cobb Island (2) Winter Wren - Rose Hill Road (1) Pine Warbler - Cuckold Creek Road (4) Rufous- sided Towhee - Cuckold Creek Road Eastern Meadowlark - Allen's Fresh (2) Voice recorder: If you have any comments or questions, please call me at 202-260-7151 (W). P.S. A single Osprey, a single Sharp-shinned Hawk, three Black Vultures, a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and two Fox Sparrows were observed from my deck on Sunday, 3/26. George ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================